Cross Peloponnese Drive & Bike

Cycle tours in the Peloponnese are like cycling on a huge island. In 1893, engineers cut the four miles of land attaching the peninsula to the Attica mainland, and voilà, an island was created. Actually that’s what Peloponnese means in Greek: “Pelops Island.” Pelops was the mythical king of Greece who inspired the created of the Olympic Games.

It is no surprise that Lonely Planet named the Peloponnese the #1 European destination in 2016.

Just about every town in the Peloponnese has evidence of an ancient presence, the most famous being Mycenae where King Agamemnon ruled who launched the Trojan War. All over the region one finds illustrious sites — Nemea, Sparta, Epidavros, Mystra, Argo, Corinth — as well as unheralded ruins with barely a plaque that you just stumble across. Its safe to say that the Peloponnese is the richest regional source of antiquities in Greece.

Because there is so much to see in the Peloponnese that stretches over some 8300 square miles, it is not possible to cover so much ground in one week. You would need three weeks to properly probe the island by bicycle. And that is why we created Drive & Bike to give you the opportunity to reach into the depths of this magical region on four wheels and then switch to two wheels for intimate explorations.