Cape Matapan
Greece
Cape Matapan (Maniot dialect), also called Cape Tainaron or Taenarum, or Cape Tenaro, is situated at the end of the Mani Peninsula, in the Peloponnese in Greece. Cape Matapan is the southernmost point of mainland Greece, and the second southernmost point in mainland Europe. It separates the Messenian Gulf in the west from the Laconian Gulf in the east; it is on the migration route of birds headed to Africa. Cape Taenarum in classical antiquity was the site of the city of Taenarum (Ancient), now in ruins. In ancient Greek mythology the eponymous founder-hero of the city was Taenarus, who was credited with establishing the city's important temple of Poseidon. Greeks used the expression "Tainarian evil" (Ancient), meaning a great and unlawful evil affecting suppliants, as the Spartans killed the Helots who had fled into Tainaron and were suppliants in the temple of Poseidon.
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