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Sights in Methoni

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Rock-cut entrance and limestone burial chambers at Agios Onoufrios north of Methoni

Agios Onoufrios Catacombs

The Agios Onoufrios chambers north of Methoni preserve rock-cut graves, offering niches and traces of later hermit use, but access is informal and difficult.

Restored nineteenth-century Kapodistrian School and stone well in the planned town of Methoni

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Kapodistrian School of Mutual Learning

Inaugurated in 1830, Methoni's restored Kapodistrian School records an early effort to build public primary education in the new Greek state.

Methoni Castle walls and stone causeway extending through the sea to the octagonal Bourtzi

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Methoni Castle and Bourtzi

Methoni's vast castle occupies a 400-metre promontory, preserving Venetian and Ottoman layers before a stone causeway reaches the octagonal Bourtzi sea fort.