Taygetos Profitis Ilias Greece Ταΰγετος Προφήτης Ηλίας Πελοποννήσου

Taygetos Profitis Ilias Greece //Ascend on the eastern slopes

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"""Take the road from Spárti to Gýtheion. About 7 kilometers from Spárti, you pass a village called Léfki and soon after you turn right off the main road in the direction of the villages Anogia and then Paleopanagia, where you find the road to an outlying settlement called Toriza. At the very end of the paved road is a spring called Magganiári, at an altitude of 1000m. The main mountain path starts here, it will take you to the mountain refuge building, in a location called Varvára (1550m), where you can spend the night. The path is well marked, passing through a mountain forest whose shade makes it perfect for summer hikes. Along the way, the path meets twice with the forest road that links the spring Magganiari with Pentavli.
The path continues through the forest without getting too steep, and eventually leads to the Tripodas spring, a name that also applies to the entire mountainside. From here on, the path becomes steeper and eventually intersects the Katafýgio-Lakkómata segment of the European E4 path. Then the path takes us past the Varvára spring, last source before the refuge building. In summer, this spring is usually dry. At some point, the path joins a dirt road leading to the refuge.
The climb from Magganiári spring to the refuge spans an altitude difference of 550m and takes one and a half hours. The climb from the refuge to the Profitis Ilias peak (2407m) takes about two and a half hours on a very well marked path.

Accommodation
The refuge building at Varvára was built in 1962. Today, it is equipped with heating, bunk beds, blankets and a kitchen, accommodating up to 26 persons. In order to lodge there, you need to make prior arrangement with the Mountaineering Club of Spárti (tel. 003027310-22574).

You can leave your car at a large parking lot created by the Sparta Forest Service near Magganiári spring. """