Greece's Peloponnese from the Sky

The Peloponnese Region is a peninsula in southern Greece, connected to the central part of the country by the Isthmus of Corinth land bridge and since 2004 by the Rio Rio–Antirrio bridge. You can see the gorgeous part of Greece in this aerial film by contributor and drone pilot johannesbloechl, who also visited the Apollo Temple in Corinth and the Poseidon Temple near Athens (both of which are in the Central Greece region). This stunning 4K piece earned him a Done Video of the Week award in August, 2019.

Content creator and pilot VGVideos used a DJI Mavic Pro drone to create this amazing video from an 11 day trip to the Peloponnese Peninsula in southern Greece, the site of the ancient city-state of Sparta.  The peninsula is technically an island, as it's been separated from the "mainland" of Greece since the construction of the Corinthian Canal in the late 19th century.  The canal, which is shown in the video, is too narrow for large ships; it's main function now is as a tourist attraction.  

Contributor and drone pilot inva+sla created this beautiful aerial video of the Peloponnese, a peninsular area in south-central Greece.  During the Antiquity, this landform was the home of Sparta, a city state which was located in what is now Laconia in the southeastern part of the peninsula, and which fought first with and then against the city-state of Athens.  The video includes bird's eye views of Elafonnisos, Kardamyli, Limeni, Monemvasia, the Dimitrios Shipwreck, Voidokoilia and Methoni.

Here's a beautiful view of the Greek port city of Patras, compliments of AirVuz contributor and pilot SioU.  It was shot on a DJI Mavic Pro 2 drone.  Patras is situated on the northern coast of the Peloponnese Peninsula in southern Greece, on the Gulf of Corinth.  It sits at the foothills of Mt. Panachaiko.  The port of Patras is not the largest in Greece but it's the most important westward-facing port, and Patras is often referred to as Greece's Gateway to the West.  It's also the third largest city in Greece.

Check out this stunning drone video of a seaside town in the Peloponnese region of southern Greece, compliments of contributor iOlti Films.  Nafplio lies on the eastern side of the region, which is technically an island since being separated from the "mainland" by the Corinth Canal.  It's the main seaport on the Argolic Gulf, an arrow-shaped extension of the Aegean Sea.  Nafplio played a key role in the struggle between the Ottoman and Venetian Empires which took place in the late Middle Ages.  

Here is a marvelous aerial view of some beautiful wetlands and bird (flamingo) life in southern Greece, compliments of contributor SioU.  Shot on a DJI Mavic Air drone, the video captures some of the bird life in the area around Lake Stroflyia.  The area is a small peninsula jutting off the northwestern coast of the Peloponnese region, just a short drive west of the regional capital Patras.  It acts as a natural wildlife sancturary and is becoming a popular eco-tourism destination. 

Παλαμήδι is the Greek word for Palamidi, the fortress built by the Venetians in the Peloponnese region during their second occupation of Greece. The fortress is made of stone and was completed in 1714. Unfortunately for the Ventians, the Turks captured the fortress only a year later and occupied it for nearly a century until the Greeks took it, and their country, back in 1822. Sphereview does a marvelous job showcasing the centuries-old fortress in this aerial video. 

Here is an excellent aerial video of a castle near the southern tip of mainland Greece.  The town of Koroni is situated on the southern coast of the Peloponnese region, in a region known as Messinia.  The castle which sits over the town was constructed during the period when the region was part of the Venetian Empire, during the Middle Ages.  It subsequently became a key strategic location in the struggle between Venice and the Ottoman Empire, coming under control of the latter around 1500.  

Check out these aerial views of some stunning spots from the Corinthia region of Greece, compliments of AirVuz contributor Aerial_Greece.    Corinthia is one of the country's regional units; it occupies the southern part of the Peloponnese Peninsula.  The video features some footage of the rocky coastline along the Gulf of Corinth.  You'll also see a beautiful lake near the town of Loutraki.  The video also features footage of a resort just to the east of Corinthia in the neighboring West Attica regional unit.  

Greece's Methoni Castle is an important cultural and historical site in the southwestern part of the country.  It's a defensive fortification located on the coast of Messinia, one of the sub-regions of the Peloponnese Peninsula that represents the southern portion of mainland Greece.  Dating to the Middle Ages, it was significantly altered during the centuries when the Venetians controlled much of coastal Greece.  In this drone video by AirVuz contributor Viajes Lost Planet, you'll get a bird's eye view of the fortress.  

Lake Doxa is an artificial lake in the Peloponnese region of southern Greece.  It's in Corinthia, the northeasternmost of the region's administrative units.  Surrounded by pine trees, the lake was created in the 1990's.  The lake's construction required that the relocation of a monastery nearby.  Contributor Harispomonis created this magnificent drone video of the lake, one of the largest artificial bodies of water in the country with a surface area of about 5 square km (around 1.5 square mi.).   

Check out this fantastic first person view (FPV) drone video from a trip to the Peloponnese region of southern Greece, compliments of AirVuz contributor and FPV pilot Orbi_FPV.  One of the first sequences is from a flight through the Corinth Canal, which turned the Peloponnese from a peninsula into an island when it was cut through the Isthmus of Corinth in the late 1800's.  Other featured spots include the Dmitrios shipwreck in Laconia, the lighthouse at the tip of Cape Matapan, and more.    

Here's an awesome drone video of a beautiful area in the Peloponnese region of southern Greece, compliments of contributor and pilot chris ikarus. The Methana Peninsula is a landform on the eastern side of the larger Peloponnese Peninsula.  It was created by the action of 32 volcanoes which began erupting about a million years ago.  The eruptions continued until about 300 years ago.  That being said, the volcanoes (most of which are lava domes) are not considered to be permanently dormant.  

In this video, top AirVuz contributor and drone pilot Badios filmed Katerina Soldatou doing her "Greece Has Soul" aerial dance over the Corinthian Canal, one of the most well-known sights in central Greece.  The canal was built in the late 1800's to connect the Saronic Gulf and the Gulf of Corinth, which sit on opposite sides of the Isthmus of Corinth connecting the Peloponnese Peninsula with the mainland of Greece.  While the canal is too narrow for shipping, it is big enough for small boats.

Contributor Travelingwiththetills created this beautiful drone video of Elafonisos, a tiny island of southern Greece.  It sits just off the coast of the Peloponnese Peninsula, which is the mainland of the country's southern region.  While it's quite small, it's the largest in the Peloponnese Islands, an archipelago in the area.  It sits to the north of Kythira, a larger island which is considered to be part of the Ionian Islands group despite being well to the south of the other six islands of the group.  

The Acrocorinth is an important historical site in the Peloponnese region of southern Greece.  It is a fortress situated on a monolith rock overlooking the ruins of the ancient city of Corinth, about 5 km (around 3 mi.) southwest of modern-day Corinth.  Occupied for thousands of years, the fortress was once known as one of the Fetters of Greece by the Macedonians who controlled the region for a time.  Seen here in this drone video by G Traveller, the Acrocorinth played an active defensive role until the 19th century.  

Check out this drone video of an important ancient ruins site in the Peloponnese region of southern Greece, compliments of AirVuz contributor Up Drones Greece.  It's the Temple of Zeus in Nemea, a site in the Corinthia region that covers the northeastern corner of the Peloponnese Peninsula.  Nemea featured prominently in Greek mythology, as the home of the Nemean Lion slain by Heracles and as the place where the infant Opheltes was killed by a serpent.  The surviving columns of the temple here date to about 330 BC.

While the term "acropolis" is sometimes used to describe the famous hilltop complex in Athens, Greece, the term actually refers to any fortified settlement built on elevated ground in Ancient Greece.  In this excellent drone video by DRONEAS GR, you'll get an aerial view of another well-known acropolis - Larisa,  It's located in the city of Argos in the southern Peloponnese region of the country.  Much of the structure dates to the fifth century BC, when the city of Argos was allied with Athens against Sparta.  

If you thought that Egypt and Mexico were the only places to see ancient pyramids, check out this drone video by contributor DRONEAS GR.  The subject of the video is the ruins of the Pyramid of Hellinikon in Argolis, an area of Greece's Peloponnese Peninsula.  One of two surviving pyramids in the area, this is a very old site even by Greek standards.  While there is no universal agreement on dating, it's believed that the structure may have been constructed as early as 3000 BC, over 2,500 years before the Athens Parthenon.  

Greece is home to one of the strongest kiteboarding scenes in the world, carving out a similar place as the related sport of windsurfing.  In this drone video by top AirVuz contributor harispomonis, you'll get a bird's eye view of some epic kiteboarding around Cape Drepano.  The cape lies near the mouth of the Gulf of Corinth just east of the Rio-Antirion Bridge, on its southern side in the Peloponnese Region.  The video was captured just as Greece was beginning to emerge from its Covid-19 near-lockdown in the Spring of 2020.  

This excellent piece by AirVuz contributor SioU uses a combination of archival and drone footage to tell the story of the Rio-Antirrio Bridge, considered one of the modern wonders of Greece.  The cable-stayed structure spans the Gulf of Corinth, connecting the mainland of Central Greece with the city of Patras on the Peloponnese Peninsula.  With a total length of almost 2.9k meters (almost 9.5k ft.), it's one of the longest bridges of its type in the world.  It was opened just before the Athens-hosted 2004 Summer Olympics.  

Contributor DimiMaran created this beautiful drone video of a village in the Peloponnese region of Greece.  The town is called Vasilitsi, and it's located in the regional unit of Messinia.  Messinia is a historical region which covers the southwestern part of the Peloponnese Peninsula in southern Greece.   The town of Vasilitsi itself is populated with quaint white houses with red brick roofs, and it's set in the hills overlooking the Ionian Sea, an extension of the greater Mediterranean.   

Greece's Bourtzi Castle sits on an the tiny island of St. Theodoroi in the harbor or Nafplio, a port town on the eastern coast of the Peloponnese Peninsula.  The castle dates to the 15th century, when much of coastal Greece was controlled by the Venetian Empire.  Along with the nearby Palamidi Fortress, it's considered one of the main landmarks of Nafplio.  The structure has served a range of purposes, ranging from a prison to a hotel.  Check it out from above in this drone video by AirVuz contributor antillke.

Koroni is a town in southern Greece, in the Messenia region of the Peloponnese.  Seen here in this excellent drone video by Viajes Lost Planet, the town is situated on the north side of a peninsula, facing the Gulf of Messenia.  During the roughly three centuries during which the Peloponnese was under Venetian control, the fortress of Koroni and that of Methoni (due west of Koroni, on the Ionian Sea) became two of the most important strategic bulwarks in the the vase Venetian empire which covered much of the eastern Mediterranean. 

The Greek town of Monemvasia is located on a tiny island off the southeastern coast of Laconia in the Peloponnese.  The main part of the town lies near the base of a plateau, atop which sits a medieval era fortress.  Founded in the 6th century AD, the town withtstood seiges by both Arab and Norman forces, later (like much of the eastern Mediterranean) coming under Venetian control.  Since 1971, it's been joined to the mainland by a 200 meter (660 ft.) causeway.  Get a bird's eye view of Monemvasia in this drone video by Viajes Lost Planet.   

The Dmitrios is a famous shipwreck in the Laconia region of southern Greece.  In December, 1980, he 67 meter (220 ft.) Greek-flagged ship docked at the port of Gytheio due to a medical emergency.  It remained there for nearly a year due to a series of financial and mechanical issues, until it was swept away by a storm and temporarily anchored at sea.  Unmoored by another storm in December, 1981, it ran aground at the nearby Valtaki Beach.  Now a popular tourist destination, you can see it from above in this drone video by Viajes Lost Planet.  

The Gulf of Corinth is an inlet of the Ionian Sea between the mainland of Central Greece and the Peloponnese Peninsula. In this magnificent drone video by ourakot5, you'll get a bird's eye view of some of the most beautiful sights on these storied waters.   Locations featured include the Alkionides, a group of small islands at the eastern end of the gulf; Milokoki beach on the Corinthian (Peloponnese) coast; and the Melagavi Lighthouse at the end of Cape Malagavi near Lutraki, also in Corinth.

Cape Drepano is a promontory off the northern coast of the larger Peloponnese Peninsula in southern Greece.  Situated on the south side of the Gulf of Corinth, the body of water which separates the Peloponese from the mainland.  With its semi-protected waters, the cape and its environs offer some of the best windsurfing in the Mediterranean region.  In this first person view (FPV) video, you'll get a perspective of Cape Drepano from a racing drone piloted by AirVuz contributor and FPV pilot MothFPV.

In this video, contributor Badios aerially filmed Katerina Soldatou performing an aerial dance beneath a famous modern bridge in Greece.  The Rio–Antirrio Bridge connects the Peloponnese Peninsula to the Greek mainland, well to the west of the Corinth Canal crossings.  Built in 2004, the 2.9k meter ((9.5k) cable-stayed bridge is widely considered to be one of the great works of modern civil engineering.  As of 2018, the span is the world's third largest span of the suspended cable-stayed design.  

Patras is the third largest city in Greece, after the capital Athens and the northern port city of Thessaloniki.  It's situated on the Peloponnesian Peninsula, a landform which sits just south of the main Greek mainland.  Patras is an important port city, and is considered the country's principal gateway to western and southern Europe.  In this video, you'll get an epic bird's eye view of this 4,000 year old city.  The video was shot using the hyperlapse functionality on a DJI Mavic 2 Pro drone, by contributor and pilot SioU.