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ted to Christianity as a result of the miracles it was believed to have performed. The icon
now resides inside the city's oversized cathedral, the Church of Ypapantis.
Below the
kastro
is the small but attractive old town, which was almost totally des-
troyed by the Turks during the War of Independence and rebuilt by French engineers in
the 1830s. On 14 September 1986 Kalamata was devastated by an earthquake; 20 people
were killed, hundreds were injured and more than 10,000 homes were destroyed.
