Enough apart Our country attract the interest of visitors mainly to their architecture, their history, as well as a rich natural landscape that surrounds them.
However, there is a village, which stands out from the rest, having entered the Guinness book about 25 years ago, a unique achievement that has not managed to achieve another part in the Greek territory.
The reason for the onions of the prefecture of Messinia, which is administratively subject to the Municipality of Pylos – Nestor, about 15 km from Pylos and 40 km from Kalamata.
The village is located in the area of Pylia and is built at an altitude of 322 meters.
Today’s settlement has about 500 inhabitants and comes from the Union of three older settlements, Furtzi or Frutzis (since 1927 oaks or oaks), upper onions and lower onions, of which the oldest settlement, at least the Kremydi, is mentioned.
Although the name of the village directly refers to the favorite vegetable, it is not the reason that has entered the Guinness book. Most of the villagers are mainly involved in agriculture and livestock, but this did not prevent them from making a significant success. So, the village entered the Guinness book in 1999, because it had the largest percentage of graduates of scientists (about 30%) in all its inhabitants.
If you look back on 1893, the date, that is, when the village school began operating and by 1999, it seems that there is actually the greatest graduation of graduates of scientists who reached 810.
However, a few years ago, the only elementary school that used to work in the onions was closed due to lack of students.
In the village you can enjoy foods from Messinian cuisine. In addition to the traditional houses and the building of the old elementary school, the village stands out in the village the Church of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary, which belongs to the Holy Metropolis of Messinia. At the same time, the sights of the area include the burial tomb in Kaminia, at a distance of one km from the village. It is a great archaeological monument from the Middle Helladic and Mycenaean era (about 2200 BC to 1200 BC).
Finally, about 500 meters from the village there is the source of Furtzovrisi, and next to the settlement, west, passes a river, in a deep ravine, called Malacasa.