Kefalári

Five km/3mi from Árgos on the road to Trípoli a minor road (signposted) branches off to the village of Kefalári, famed for its large plane-tree. A spring which emerges from the rock here was believed by Strabo to be the outflow of the Stymphalian Lake (see Xylókastro, Surroundings). Here, where once Pan and the nymphs were worshipped, there now stands a chapel dedicated to the Mother of God as the Zoodókhi Piyí ("Lifegiving Spring"). Nearby is the "Pyramid" of Kefalári, which is frequently interpreted as a mausoleum but in fact was certainly part of a military control system of the fourth century B.C.