Romanos is 10.5 kilometres from Chora and 15 kilometres from Pylos. It has approximately 280 permanent residents. In ancient times, the area was part of Nestor's kingdom, the famous king of ancient Pylos. In the village, visitors can see the traditional houses, as well as the church of Agia Triada.
In 1909-1912, in the Romanos area (as well as Petrochorio and Tragana), the first exploratory archaeological investigations were started by archaeologists Andreas Skias and Konstantinos Kourouniotis. In 1939, K. Kourouniotis started regular excavations (in collaboration with the American expedition), but these were interrupted due to the Second World War. The excavations resumed in 1952 with a representative of the Athenian Archaeological Society, Spyridon Marinatos. In the 1970s and 1980s, newer investigations by Georgios Korres followed.
Between the years 2007-2010, during works for the construction of the Costa Navarino-Navarino Dunes hotel unit, north of Romanos, the following were excavated: Proto-Helladic settlement, copper workshop, Mycenaean vaulted tomb, various other tombs, houses of the Archaic and Classical periods, an early Archaic temple, as well as various residential facilities from the Hellenistic period.
