Distance from the hotel: 105 km / 80 mins driving
Kalavryta a town and a municipality in the mountainous east-central part of the regional unit of Achaea, Greece. The town is located on the right bank of the river Vouraikos.Notable mountains in the municipality are Mount Erymanthos in the west and Aroania or Chelmos in the southeast. Kalavryta is the southern terminus of the Diakopto-Kalavryta rack railway, built by Italian engineers between 1885 and 1895. Kalavryta is built near the ancient city of Cynaetha. Kalavrita was one of the areas in Greece that experienced the hardest Nazi German copies during the Occupation. On December 13, 1943, the German occupation army executed almost the entire male population (most over the age of 12) of Kalavrita and burned the city completely.