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Country diary: A wildflower display of astonishing richness | Mark Cocker
Drosopigi, the Mani, Greece: This rocky region’s abundance of flora takes the breath away – not least a long and winding trail of Chios chamomile The Greek name for this southernmost tip of the Peloponnese is linked to a Byzantine fort at Cape Tigani (called Megali Maina), but it may well also draw on the region’s desolate, mountainous rocky country that persists throughout the entire peninsula. The fierce Maniot people were well described by Patrick Leigh Fermor in his book Mani (1958), but ...
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