A megastructure and the second connecting point between Peloponnese and the Greek mainland that would inspires awe to any passersby.
Impressive memorial dedicated to the guards and the fighters who lost their lives in a landmark battle during the Greek War of Independence.
This mansion is housing a public library and the Messolonghi Byron Society. Take a photo with the imposing statue of Lord Byron.
A 22,000-acres lagoon that's source of salt, fish, and caviar for the local economy. It's often teeming with many bird species, including migratory ones.
A unique 4 kilometers route that combines a pedestrian and cycling path and reaches the island of Tourlida through the lagoon.
It is a local delicacy of salt-preserved, cured fish-roe, also known as bottarga. In Greek is called «Avgotaracho».
The Mesolongi Public History and Art Museum is about the siege of 1826, and Philhellene Lord Byron who helped the War of Independence.
This old mansion was the family house of the Trikoupis, a Greek Prime Minister of the 19th century. Today, It's a museum focusing on his life.
DIEXODOS Cultural Center hosts over 2000 items from all historical periods with an emphasis on the Exodus of 1826, and modern photo exhibitions.
If you are in Greece in February, visit Patras for its popular carnival. This city also hosts an Odeum from Roman times which is still operational.
It's a charming coastal town with a picturesque, fortified port, famous for the Battle of Lepanto (1571) between Europeans and Turks.
The Greek city of Messolonghi is located in western Greece in the prefecture of Aitoloakarnania. Its name probably derives from the Latin words "messo" and "laghi" (messolaghi) which means "a place between lakes". This is the reason why historically its inhabitants were mainly fishermen who lived in floating houses made of reeds.
Mesolongi became well-known in Greece, and throughout the world, for the historic Exodus (exit) of its residents after a heroic resistance to the siege of Ibrahim Pasha. Since 1937 is officially called "Sacred city" due to the heroic Exodus of 1826. The modern Messolonghi is a beautiful city, with traditional buildings many of them inhabited by great figures of the Greek Revolution and the political life of modern Greece.
