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A road trip through time

he ancient Greeks believed the Mani — the central of the three Peloponnese peninsulas — was the southernmost point in the world. They were, of course, wrong — although it can lay claim to one geographical superlative: Cape Matapan, the tip of the Mani, is the southernmost point of mainland Greece. Being an extreme

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