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YITHIO , Sparta's ancient port, is the gateway to the dramatic Mani peninsula, and one of the south's most attractive seaside towns in its own right. Its

somewhat low-key harbour, with occasional ferries to Pireas and Kythira, gives onto a graceful nineteenth-century waterside of tiled-roof houses - some of them now showing their age. There's a beach within walking distance and rooms are relatively easy to find. In the bay, tethered by a long narrow mole, is the islet of Marathonisi , ancient Kranae, where Paris of Troy, having abducted Helen from Menelaus's palace at Sparta, dropped anchor, and where the lovers spent their first night.

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