Anavryti

Anavryti (alternate spellings include: Anavriti) is a small village in Laconia, Greece, located at 850m on Taygetus mountain. Overseeing Evrotas' valley, Anavryti is run through by the European walking route E4. It is part of the municipal unit Mystras. The first paved road to Anavryti was built in the 1980s with donations sent by the Anavryti Hometown society in Astoria, Queens, New York. Until that time, the village could only be accessed on foot or by donkey. (this paved road / donkey only thing is not true; I was born in Sparta and visited Anavryti three times in the 70s, each time taking a bus there from Sparta; the bus driver's name was Kousoulas) During World War II Nazi occupation forces made the steep climb up to the village to...