Xirokambi has a town hall, a medical centre, a post office, pharmacies, a church, taverns, cafés, confectioners’, ATM cash machines, firms of accountants, notary offices, hairdressers’, shops, petrol stations, a police station and taxi ranks.
Olive oil, olives, smoked pork, sausages, pickled olives, olive paste, cheese products, wine, wild greens, traditional yoghurt, rusks, oranges, preserves, turnovers, kaltsounakia (sweet pastries), samousades (a local version of baklavas), pumpkin pies, noodles, frumentry, aromatic plants and herbs.
Green olives and Kalamata olives, olive oil, chestnuts, oranges, capers, wine, pork, turkey, chicken and eggs.
Bardouniotiko (rooster with onions and local cheese)*, protoyahni, boiled goat meat soup, pancakes, black-eyed beans with local wild greens, and pumpkin flowers.
*For those who may not know, one of the secrets of the delicious taste of Bardouniotiko rooster is that the premium quality olive oil from the Bardounia area that is used in cooking it. The Bardounia area is the mountainous area of central Taygetos.
