Advantages: breathtaking setting, wonderful atmosphere, architecture and good frescoes, not too crowded Disadvantages: not accessible to disabled; out of the way area would require a special detour for most visitors
...Rome centred Western one and Mystras was a part of a late (and last) flowering of Byzantium not long before its final demise. When in Northern and Western Europe Gothic cathedrals were piercing the sky with their soaring spires, this fortified city flourished here in an altogether different tradition. ***
In June 2005 we pitch our tent in a completely empty and wonderfully grassy, small campsite Paleologio located about 2km from Sparti and 4 km ... ...buy a guide?). Mystras is a strange, beautiful and incredibly atmospheric place: large and full of half-standing walls, recessed doorways strangely bricked up, arches opening into a ravine; with bushes and trees growing from among the stones in what was living or eating chambers. Twisting alleyways (they had no wheeled transport here, all was done on foot or on donkeys’ backs and the rich were carried in sedan chairs) and steps half-worn by ...
magdadh 15.08.2005 (20.08.2005)
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