Mani

Eastern Mani in southern Greece and the islands of Karpathos and Syros have been deemed to have the most environmentally friendly beaches, and will be spared of umbrella loungers this year, according to a list drafted by the Finance Ministry of 198 "untouched" beaches in 49 municipalities, published on Friday.

A moderate earthquake shook areas of Lakonia and Messinia in the Peloponnese in southern Greece on Tuesday at 10.50 p.m.

Police have arrested a 44-year-old man on suspicion of shooting and killing his wife.

The incident took place in the village of Pyrgos Dirou in the Mani peninsula in the Peloponnese late Sunday.

Reports said the victim was mother of two minor children.

There was no immediate word on the man's motives.

The Benaki Museum has announced the re-opening of the home where Irish writer Patrick Leigh Fermor and his wife, the English photographer Joan, spent some of the best years of their lives, in Kardamyli in the Peloponnese's Mani region.

The fire department on Monday was battling a wildfire in the settlement of Marathea in East Mani in the Peloponnese, reports said.
Twenty-four firefighters in 12 trucks, one ground unit and one water-dumping airplane have been dispatched to contain the blaze, according to the same reports.
No more information was immediately available.

US Ambassador in Athens Geoffrey Pyatt is recovering from a serious bicycle accident he suffered on Friday in the southern Peloponnese, with reports speaking of bone fractures in both his legs.

Skai radio reported that during an excursion to Mani, Pyatt lost control of his bicycle under conditions yet to be determined, to injure his legs.

The Benaki Museum presents a collection of photographs by Joan Leigh Fermor, the equally talented wife of the celebrated Irish travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor. Between the 1940s and 60s Joan took thousands of photographs of people and places as she traveled with Paddy around Greece, where the couple had settled in the village of Kardamyli in the southwestern Peloponnese.

The Benaki Museum presents a collection of photographs by Joan Leigh Fermor, the equally talented wife of the celebrated Irish travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor. Between the 1940s and 60s Joan took thousands of photographs of people and places as she traveled with Paddy around Greece, where the couple had settled in the village of Kardamyli in the southwestern Peloponnese.

A fire engine is seen near a blaze in Kotronas, eastern Mani, southern Greece, Monday. Firefighters worked into the night trying to contain fires in Attica as well as Achaia and Laconia in the Peloponnese, which destroyed forest and farmland. Reports said several houses were threatened by the flames.

The eponymous Mani region of extreme southern Greece has long been considered what British author John Fowles once referred to as “Wild Greece”. The rugged and sparsely populated region is roughly divided between two prefectures, Messinia and Laconia, which in antiquity was the home of Sparta.