Myloi is a village and the seat of the former municipality of Lerna

Lerna (municipal unit)

Lerna is a former municipality in Argolis, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Argos-Mykines, of which it is a municipal unit. The seat of the municipality was Myloi. Population 3,042 ....

 in the southwestern part of Argolis

Argolis

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, Greece

Greece

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. The old GR-7

Greek National Road 7

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 is about 100 m from the train station of Myloi and is also accessible by a rare road linking Nea Kios - Nafplio and the rest of central and eastern Argolis. It is located about 62 km SSW of Corinth

Corinth

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, about 6 km SW of Argos

Argos

Argos is a city and a former municipality in Argolis, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Argos-Mykines, of which it is a municipal unit. It is 11 kilometres from Nafplion, which was its historic harbour...

, about 140 km WSW of Athens

Athens

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, about 13 km W of Nafplio and about 55 km E of Tripoli

Tripoli, Greece

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. It is located next to the northwestern part of the Argolic Gulf

Argolic Gulf

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Myloi has a school, a church, a post office, a train station (on the line of Kalamata

Kalamata

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 - Tripoli - Argos - Corinth) west of the square, a port and a square (plateia

Plateia

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). The village also has a spring in the area. It also had campgrounds until about five years ago.

Much of the area in the northeast is used for farming while forests surround the town and the coastline. The rocky landscape of the mountains lie to the west.

Myloi also has a lake and a castle.

The settlement of Myloi dates back to around 2500 BC. For the earlier history of Lerna, see Lerna

Lerna

In classical Greece, Lerna was a region of springs and a former lake near the east coast of the Peloponnesus, south of Argos. Its site near the village Mili at the Argolic Gulf is most famous as the lair of the Lernaean Hydra, the chthonic many-headed water snake, a creature of great antiquity...

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