Built in the center of the Mani peninsula, south of the great gorge that cuts in two the mountain range of Taygetos, at the foot of Mount St. Elias, a rocky plateau ( alt. 250m . ) and with view to the west the Messinian Gulf, dominates the historic Areopolis. Seeing one above the stone walls and the houses of the narrow streets of Areopolis, towers, whose names are the stamp of reputed families of the village and its history, witnesses of the glorious history of this place.