Prefecture of Lakonia

You can buy

Olive oil, olives, sausages, cheese and other dairy products, oranges, but also pottery from Sparta. sweets, almond sweets (Byzantine delicacy), “sakousades” (sweet made of almond, walnut, sesame and honey), “diples”, “rafiolia” (skaltsounia), from Mystras and Monemvasia. Chylopites (Greek pasta, like tagliatelle), trachanas, “synglina” (sausages), from Areopolis. Hand woven textiles, from Geraki. Fish and seafood from Elaphonisos. Citrus fruits from Skala. Excellent honey from Vatheia.

You must taste

In Vresthena, “tourkakia”, souvlaki, and in Daphni, “barouniotiko”, cheese-stuffed chicken, olives and walnuts. In Gythio and Neapolis, octapus on charcoal. In Plytra, pasta with seafood. Finally, local meat – ribs, dry salt pork, “sykina” and “loupina” (salted seeds).

 

 

 

 

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