Pylos – Pylia (2000)

In “Pylos-Pylia”, the most important monuments and significant historical events are set within the context of a more general process, and every effort has been made to avoid the disjointed character of a mere recitation of events.
In this same place they all mustered their troops, pitched camp, made their preparations, laid siege, defended themselves, erected fortifications , fought by land or sea, killed and were killed. So many dead in the one place. Bloody confict was reenacted again and again, always with the same ferocity, for two and a half thousand years.

Neolithic, Early Helladic and Middle Helladic installations around the bay and in the surrounding area of Pylos, the palace of Nestor at Epano Englianos, the Mycenaean tholos around it, the mycenaean necropolis with the chamber tombs at the site Volimilia at Chora, Triphylia, where habitation continued during Hellenistic and roman period, the “Tomb of Thrasymedes” at Voidokoilia, the Hellenistic tombs and graves of Roman date at Divan, the Early Christian cemetery at Ayios Onouphrios, Methone, Paliokastro, Niokastro, the forts of Corone and Methone, the medieval aqueducts at Pylos, the church of Saint Leo at Paliomothoni – all these bear withness to the eternal dynamism of the geopolitical unit of south-west Messenia.