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JessieLang Says: Mystra is a late Byzantine (medieval) city. Constantinople was the capital of the Byzantine Empire, and its most important city. Thesaloniki was the 2nd most important, and Mystra was third. It was a regional capital until the fall of the Byzantine Empire.The castle is high...
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.
The Olive and Greek Olive Oil Museum II
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...
The Olive and Greek Olive Oil Museum
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...
Leonidas (not the belgian praline...)
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...
Evrotas river-Taygetos mountain
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...
EN HATIPI: THE BEST TRADITIONAL GREEK FOOD
koskyr Says: Well this is the place to eat real greek food with real and pure materials!The food is mediteranian style with local touch.The olive oil is from the owner's olive trees in the closeby village Theologos.The vegetables are from the villages nearby and the bread is...
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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.
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Sparta ("Sparti" in Greek) is located 225 km south of Athens, in Peloponnese, on the same site as ancient Sparta had stood. It is the capital of the prefecture of Laconia (where Monemvasia, Mistras,...
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Ancient Sparta was one of the most important City-States in Greece, but now it is just a small town. The ancient city hasn’t been fully excavated, and probably won’t be (modern Sparta is on top of it)...
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Sparta was a city in ancient Greece, whose territory included, in Classical times, all Laconia and Messenia, and which was the most powerful state of the Peloponnesus. It is also the name of a...
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Herodotus reports that Xerxes I of Persia intended to conquer Greece in order to dominate the entire known world. The Thermopylae was a narrow pass, the last obstacle before arriving to Athens....
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