Kalliroi is built on a green hillside and is one of the most beautiful villages of the area. According to tradition, its name comes either from the good flow of its oil, or from the village’s Moundra spring, while its old name was Mpuga, a word with Arvanite origins that is probably connected to the family of the first settlers.
Archaeological findings in the wider area testify that Kalliroi was an extension of Ancient Andania, a city that flourished in 3000 B.C. Excavations in 1929 show that there was a Spartan outpost in the area, where passers-by were taxed because it was a crossing from the eastern to the western Peloponnese, a place where the Turks kept a garrison and army.
