Sparta Travel Guide

 AndyRG Says:  It is located in a park, next to the road that leads to the famous byzantine state of Mistras, which is only 5 km far away from Sparta (you can also see my page about it).The name of the church is "Evangelistria", over 100 years old, but the patron saint of the city is Agios... 

 AndyRG Says:  It is one of the most important buildings of the city, which represents the rich cultural life of Sparta (in all arts, even in sports: e.x. Spartathlon, the mythic ultra distance race, about 250 km, the distance between Athens-Sparta, which first took place in 1983). 

 AndyRG Says:  Inside the same museum, on the ground floor, you can see machinery, copies and models of various production techniques.Also, a small cafe and the museum's shop. 

 AndyRG Says:  There are simple exhibits inside the museum, but you can get many information about the role of oil in the economy in every historical period.It was (and still is) too important about health, nutrition, lighting... 

 AndyRG Says:  The museum, unique of its kind in Greece, was founded in 2003. It is housed at a nice building, 10' on foot from the centre of Sparta. You can learn there everything about the production of olive oil in the country at different historical times (since antiquity), its uses... 

 AndyRG Says:  It happened to be there on Holy Friday, when Jesus Christ is represented to have died as a human... Later in the night, the procession of the "epitafios"("sepulchral") was going to take place on the streets of Sparta, the same happens in every church of Greece that day... 

 AndyRG Says:  Sparta is the capital of the prefecture of Laconia, it started to be built in 1834 and so on. There are still many neo-classical buildings, nice squares and parks. You can visit the Archaeological Museum (except the Arc/al Museum in Athens, it was the first such museum that... 

 AndyRG Says:  It is located at the site of ancient Sparta. Traces of this theater (2nd or 1st century BC) can be seen there, but much of the marble that formed the seats was removed to use it for the building of Mistras... 

 AndyRG Says:  These poppies give more colour to the whole image of the theater...Behind the theater stood a temple of Athena. You can also visit the sanctuary of Artemis, the Menelaion, the sanctuary of Apollo of Amyclai (8 km south of Sparta) and the Archaeological Museum, which is... 

 AndyRG Says:  Leonidas was the Spartan king and general (5th c. BC) who still is an incarnation of the universal ideal of patriotism.He is well-known for his decision to fight the Persians in Thermopylae with only 300 soldiers, although he knew that he could leave and be saved. "Molon... 

 AndyRG Says:  You can't see a lot at this archaeological site, which is located at the one side of the modern city.The lives of Spartans were organized by the state-city, even by the age of seven. They were trained all the time in both military and athletic abilities, they could live only... 

 AndyRG Says:  Sparta has been built next to this historical river (82 km), near Taygetos mountain (2.405 m, there are numerous footpaths for hiking).Nikiforos Vrettakos (1912-1991, a poet who was born in the prefecture of Laconia, in Krokees) has written about Taygetos:"And a mountainis a... 

 AndyRG Says:  He was a Spartan king (7th c. BC), more famous for being the lawgiver of Sparta. He exiled himself in many countries to avoid a civil war. When he finally returned back to his city (after asking the oracle in Delphi if his suggestions were right), he legislated in a way to...