Greece's Peloponnese from the Sky

VGVideos used a DJI Mavic Pro drone to create this amazing video from an 11 day trip to the Peloponnese Peninsula in 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.  

Patras is the third largest city in Greece, after the capital Athens and the northern port city of Thessaloniki.  It's on the Peloponnesian Peninsula which sits just south of the main Greek mainland.  It's 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, shot with hyperlapse on a DJI Mavic 2 Pro drone, by contributor SioU.

Παλαμήδι is the Greek word for Palamidi, the fortress built by the Venetians 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. 

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.  

Contributor inva+sla created this beautiful aerial video of the Peloponnese, a peninsular area in south-central Greece.  This area was the home of ancient 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.

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. 

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.  

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.).   

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.  

In this video, 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.

Here's a beautiful view of the Greek port city of Patras, compliments of contributor 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.