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Medieval Greece

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Monemvassia and its surroundings

Monemvassia is a fortified town built on a rock on the eastern coast of Laconia, linked to the mainland by a causeway. Its lower town with stone-paved alle…

Forteresse de Methoni

Methoni and Koroni

Methoni impresses more through the monumentality and preservation of its immense fortress, while Koroni charms through the continuity between the inhabited…

Deux guerriers casqués et un char sur une fresque de Pylos (environ 1350 av. J.-C.).

Acrocorinth fortress 02

Fortress / acropolis

Acrocorinth is one of the most imposing fortresses in Greece, rising above ancient Corinth and the isthmus. Its walls, successive gates and ancient, Byzant…

Site de Mystras en Grèce 04

Archaeological site

Perched on a spur of the Taygetus above the plain of Sparta, Mistra was the capital of the Byzantine Despotate of the Morea from 1348 to 1460. The Palace o…

History and Antiquity

Foreteresse de Chlemoutsi 06

Fortress / acropolis

13th-century Frankish fortress on the Kyllini peninsula, held in turn by the Franks, the Angevins of Naples and the Ottomans, with views over Zakynthos.