Anavryti, Laconia Anavryti, Laconia Anavryti or Anavriti (Αναβρυτή) is a small village in Laconia, Greece on Taygetus mountain, altitude 850m. Above the Evrotas valley, Anavryti is traversed by European walking route E4. It is part of the municipal unit of Mystras. A paved road to Anavryti was built in the 1980s with donations sent by the Anavryti Hometown society in Astoria, Queens, New York. Until that time, the village could only be accessed on foot or by donkey. During World War II Nazi occupation, forces made the steep climb up to the village to destroy the houses of suspected partisans. Over the
Thalamae (Laconia) temple. Even the Spartan kings sometimes slept in the temple for this purpose. The site of Thalamae is located with the modern village of Thalames (formerly Koutiphari, but renamed to reflect the historical association). Thalamae (Laconia) Thalamae or Thalamai ( or Θαλάμη) was a town of ancient Laconia, which at various times belonged to Messenia. According to Greek mythology, Thalamae was founded by Pelops, who, after his sister Niobe married Amphion, brought colonists from Boeotia; and was called in the time of Strabo the Boeotian Thalamae. It stood 80 stadia north of Oetylus, and 20 stadia from Pephnus. Pephnus was