Kalávryta

Kalavryta lies in the mountains of Achaea, on the Vouraikos River between Mount Erymanthos and the heights of Chelmos. In the Middle Ages it was the centre of a Frankish barony in the Principality of Achaea, before the Byzantines recovered it in the 1270s. The town remained in Byzantine hands until the Ottoman conquest of the Morea in 1460. Nearby stands the monastery of Agia Lavra, traditionally associated with the raising of the Greek revolutionary flag in 1821.