Greek desserts come from a short list of ingredients that the country has always had in abundance: honey, walnuts and almonds, olive oil, semolina, citrus, sesame and the thin phyllo dough that turns all of them into pastry. Put together […]
Stoupa · Mani · Messenia
Guides, flavours and stories from the headland where Enigma and Liastres look out across the Messenian Gulf.
Greek desserts come from a short list of ingredients that the country has always had in abundance: honey, walnuts and almonds, olive oil, semolina, citrus, sesame and the thin phyllo dough that turns all of them into pastry. Put together […]
Tsipouro is the spirit Greeks actually drink with each other. Ouzo gets the postcards, but on a taverna table in the Peloponnese the small chilled glass beside the meze is far more often tsipouro, a clear grape distillate that has […]
Coffee in Greece is not a quick stop on the way somewhere else. It is the reason to sit down. A single cup can stretch across an hour of conversation, a card game, or a long look at the sea, […]
Every regular visitor to Stoupa has a favourite cove, and more often than not it is Foneas. The sandy bays of the village are where the holiday happens, but the rocky coast on either side hides a string of small […]
Stoupa is not a resort that switches on in June and off in September. It is a working village on the Mani coast with a long season, a short deep winter, and a different character in every month. When you […]
If you make one longer excursion from Stoupa, make it this one. The road south leads into the deep Mani, a landscape of bare hills, stone towers and villages that look carved rather than built. The two anchors of the […]
Kardamyli is the town most visitors to Stoupa end up falling for. It sits just a few kilometres north along the coast road, close enough for a relaxed morning visit, yet it feels like a different chapter of the Mani. […]
Most people in Stoupa watch the sunset by accident. They are halfway through dinner, or still on the beach shaking sand out of a towel, and the light goes while they are looking at something else. Key takeaways Sunset in […]
Stoupa sits on a peninsula that changes character every twenty kilometres you drive south. Within an hour you can go from olive terraces and a gorge running down off Taygetos to a treeless landscape of stone towers, and then to […]
Stoupa has a beach in the middle of the village and several more within a short drive of it. They are not interchangeable. One is fine sand with bars and watersports on it; one is white pebbles at the bottom […]
Reservations are taken personally, by phone — no apps, no platforms.