The Guardian cast the spotlight of Greece’s “unique and amazing caves along with a tourist attraction, once popularized by the Romans.” The focus was on the cave at Kastania, on the southern tip of the Peloponnese in the Municipality of Monemvasia, discovered by Kostas Stivaktas in the early 1900s. The farmer discovered the cave after reputedly watching bees entering. He noticed that they appeared to be refreshed as they remerged from the ground. After opening the fissure from where the bees entered and exited he beheld a magnificent site. In 1958, the cave became known to the wider public and has since then become a protected area.

Experts say that the unusual and unique formations of stalactites and stalagmites of the cave have taken three million years to form. It is open to the public every Friday, Saturday and Sunday in summer. For more info and tours, call 27340-29043 or 27340-23623

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