Town located between two lagoons formed by the delta of the Acheloos and Evinos rivers, one of the largest ecosystems in the Mediterranean, a marshy area covering an area of 140,000 m2. with more than 200 types of birds. Messolongi also has historical importance for the Greeks having been declared a sacred city and city of Heroes: during the war of liberation in 1825 it was besieged for 12 months by Ottoman and Egyptian troops and only very few inhabitants managed to survive, the others were all massacred !
Lord Byron, a well-known philhellenic English poet, also died here.