The next day I took the train into the Peloponnese to Corinth, where I found a taxi to drive me up to Acro-Corinth, the gigantic Venetian-Latin fortress overlooking the city and gulf. There seems to have been a whole city located up on this rock. The Latins were unable to hold onto the peninsula on either occasion of its conquest (after the 4th Crusade in the 1200's, or after the 1680's European-Turkish war). The reason was always the unpopularity of the Latin despots among the Greek population. Had the population been mollified, the peninsula could have been held at little cost, with fortifications like these.

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