A 750-metre stone town in a basin below Mount Helmos — terminus of the Odontotos cog railway, gateway to the Helmos snow station, and the most considered base for the {{strong:hidden wineries on the north slope}}.
Kalavryta is a stone town in a green basin below the Helmos, with the cog-railway pulling in at one end of the square and the road up to the ski station leaving at the other.
It is also the site of the Wehrmacht massacre of 13 December 1943, in which 696 men and boys were killed; the town carries that quietly. Above it, on the north slope at 800–1,100 m, sit six small wineries growing the rare red Mavro Calavrytino. Below it, the Odontotos. Around it, a working mountain landscape that doesn’t need explaining.
The town is small. The interesting things are at the railway station, on the hill, on the road up, and on the north slope.
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