The 12th Tour du Péloponnèse kicks off, October 5–12 (videos-photos)

The Tour du Péloponnèse is not conscionable an event… It is simply a magical travel into the satellite of classic cars, consistently bringing unneurotic much than 70 crews, the immense bulk from abroad.

150 participants from 20 countries! Together with mechanics, enactment teams, and organizers, a full of 200 radical embark connected a unsocial 9-day, 1,000-kilometer way done the micro-geography of the Peloponnese. With 24 precision peculiar stages and 170 outer clip checks, the Tour du Péloponnèse is rightly considered the largest Greek classic and historical car event.

Looking astatine the database of participants, 1 realizes however subjective the word “beautiful cars” truly is. Perhaps the much fitting—though somewhat stereotypical but inactive true—expression would beryllium “vehicles that determination us,” since they awaken memories successful each of us: of aged races, films, friends who are nary longer with america but near down thing unique, the saccharine representation that turned from a fleeting infinitesimal into a lasting imprint.

This twelvemonth the TdP volition statesman with the Technical–Administrative Check on October 5th astatine the Aldemar Olympian Village successful Skafidia. The authoritative start, arsenic always, volition instrumentality spot that evening successful Ancient Olympia (…the precise cradle of Sports), nether the auspices of the Municipality of Ancient Olympia, with crews mounting disconnected astatine 20:00.

(There is nary TdP without the legendary Tsoufa…)

The archetypal “competitive” day, Monday, October 6th, volition instrumentality the participants to the Temple of Apollo Epicurius, ending with an overnight enactment astatine Costa Navarino. On the 2nd day, Tuesday, October 7th, the crews volition thrust on coastal routes done Pylos, Methoni, Messini, Kalamata, Kardamyli, with the time concluding successful Limeni. Spectacular seaside routes volition besides diagnostic connected the 3rd day, Wednesday, October 8th, passing done Gerolimenas, Vatheia, Kotronas, and Gythio. The time volition extremity successful Sparta, with crews staying successful the imposing Mystras, beneath the watchful oculus of the medieval citadel.

The 4th day, Thursday, October 9th, volition showcase the uniquely beauteous landscapes of Laconia, with routes done Geraki and Elaia before finishing successful Monemvasia. The last limb of the 5th time volition beryllium arsenic impressive, passing done Gerakas, Kyparissi, Fokiano, and Leonidio, starring to the stately Nafplio, the archetypal superior of Greece, wherever preparations volition beryllium made for the accepted Night Special Stage that ever concludes the TdP, arsenic it is affectionately called by the “initiated.”

The Tour du Péloponnèse is co-organized by the Hellenic Classic Car Club and the motorsport relation TRISKELION, with the enactment of the Italian nine Scuderia Campidoglio and ARSOE.

(John Karabelas, the antheral down TdP)

We invitation everyone whose luck places them on this year’s routes—or simply friends who privation to articulation us—to bask unneurotic the top Greek lawsuit of classical and historical cars, the 12th Tour du Péloponnèse 2025.