Exploring the ruins of Mystras' castle town in the Peloponnese. Mystras was an important castle of the Byzantine Empire.
Mystras is an archaeological site in Greece, located near Sparta in the Peloponnese. Learn more about this unique castle town and why you need to see it.
The city of Mystras (or Mistras) in Southern Greece was the provincial capital of the Byzantine Despotate of the Morea from the 13th through the 15th centuries...
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Albeit a Byzantine site rather than an ancient Greek site, Mystras is truly magical and a Unesco World Heritage site worthy of a visit. Mystras reveals the full legacy of the Christian Byzantine empire. The whole town is a Byzantine museum in itself with remains of churches and monasteries that are hundreds of years old...
Sparte (Mystras) - Grèce
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Mystras, Pantanassa Monastery, the katholikon, is the foundation of the protostrator and mesazon John Frangopoulos, a high-ranking functionary of the military and administrative hierarchy in the despotate. The name and position of the donor are mentioned in an inscription in the western gallery, and in monograms carved on the impost of a column of the nave. The date of the church’s construction, 1428, was recorded in a dubious lost inscription that had been read by the abbot Fourmont in 1730.
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Exterior view of despots palace, mystras, peloponnese, greece
Mystras is a beautiful fortified city on a hillside in the Peloponnese. The Byzantine structures were originally built between the 13th and 15th centuries.
After a week of touring the ruins of ancient and classical Greece, I was excited for a slight change of pace. Yes, Mystras is still technically ruins, but you can tell the well-preserved churches and buildings are from a completely different point in time. Located on the slopes of Taygetos Mountain, Mystras was a powerful…
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