HISTORY
At the end of the XIXth century, the Peloponnese region represented one third of the newly-established kingdom of Greece. It is a mountainous area and its central part is very remote. This means that the eparchy — meaning the sub-prefecture — of Kalavryta, with a total population of 44,000 inhabitants, was connected to Patras, some 50 km away as the crow flies, by a single road crossing mountain passes at an altitude of almost 2700 feet, and impassable most of the year. The only natural
