Pyrgos

Pyrgos is the capital of the Elis local unit in Greece. The city is located in the western part of the Peloponnese, inside the middle of a simple, 4 kilometres from the Ionian Sea. The river Alfeios flows into sea approximately 7 km south of Pyrgos. The population of the city Pyrgos is 25,180, and of the municipality 47,995 2011. Pyrgos is sixteen km west of Olympia, 16 km southeast of Amaliada, 70 km southwest of Patras and 85 km west of Tripoli.

In the 1510s, at some point of Ottoman rule over Greece, a villager from Tsorota of Kalavryta decided to move and reform the place of Pyrgos which up till then turned into uncultivated. During this reformation he located in a properly a massive quantity of gold historical coins which he brought to the Sultan as the rightful owner. The Sultan, Selim I 1470-1520, so one can honor his integrity named him ruler of the region 1512 and gave him a outstanding acreage increasing from Alfeios river till the village Agios Ioannis which is located near Katakolo the main port of the Elis region.

This region was encompassing today’s Pyrgos and turned into uninhabited. According to the memories the new ruler built a wonderful tower, pyrgos in Greek on a hill with a purpose to supervise his fields and his flocks. This changed into the first settlement of the place. Pyrgos has a educate station with ordinary trains to the port of Katakolo and Olympia. Service on the line from Patras to Kalamata via Pyrgos has been suspended in 2011.