Chalandritsá

Chalandritsa lies among the hills south of Patras, above the Peiros River. Near the settlement, the remains of prehistoric houses and a Mycenaean cemetery point to a long human presence in the Achaean countryside. In the Middle Ages, the Franks made Chalandritsa a barony, ruled first by the Dramelay family and later by the Genoese Zaccaria. It was the last barony held by the Franks in the Morea; its capture by the Despotate of the Morea in 1429 marked the end of the Principality of Achaea.