A 33-square-kilometre plateau of rare deciduous {{strong:Vallonea oak}} at 700 metres above Olympia — the oldest oak forest in Europe, walked on quiet marked paths from the village of Foloi.
Foloi is a NATURA 2000–protected plateau of Vallonea oak — a slow-growing, deciduous, mythologically-loaded tree that gave its acorns to the Romans for ink and tannin.
The forest covers 33 km² at 700 metres, just inland from Olympia, on a single broad plateau. The village of Foloi sits at its centre with two tavernas and the local NATURA visitor office. The walking is gentle and the air is twenty degrees cooler than the coast in August.
The forest is a single plateau. The village sits at its centre. Almost everything else is a side trail.
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