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The Peloponnese?the fertile, palm-shaped peninsula on the southernmost end of the mainland?hosts the breathtaking ancient theater of Epidaurus, as well as the medieval fortified cities of Monemvasia and Pylos. Food fans come for the olives and olive oil, the abundance of vegetables and fruit, and some of the most important Greek wines.

The Peloponnese has lush vegetable gardens, green hills, the clear blue sea, and the two-storied mud-brick homes with the red-tiled roofs in the middle of lemon  or apricot orchards?many of which remain, still producing wonderful fruit. Driving down the old narrow winding road through the particularly fertile Argos plain (in the eastern central part of the Peloponnese), we'd trail behind trucks brimming with cabbages, carrots, tomatoes, apricots, and melons. A modern highway has replaced the narrow road, but the area still has wonderful produce such as the justly famous argitikes melitzanes (long, light-purple eggplants);and football-shaped argitika peponia (deep-yellow, aromatic heirloom melons).
From the beautiful ancient city of Nauplion (also spelled "Náfplio" or "Nafplion"), which was the first capital of modern Greece, artichokes. 
 which are cultivated in the fields behind the beach of Kandia. If you visit ...