Mythical Greek Fortress Towns Tour

We take our tasteful breakfast at the hotel and we depart for the upper city of Monemvasia. During the tour in the fortress town, we will visit monuments from various phases of the city’s historical route until today. We will admire the temple of Saint Sophia, which is a faithful copy of St. Sophia of Constantinople, on a smaller scale. Afterward, we will enjoy the magnificent view and we will go downhill for the lower city of Monemvasia. We will admire the arches, landmarks of the medieval time still standing in many buildings and more than 40 churches in the lower city. We will also visit the home of one of the greatest Greek poets of Yiannis Ritsos. We return to the hotel to enjoy a delicious dinner. Free time for relaxation or for walking in the folklore streets.

We take our tasteful breakfast at the hotel and we depart for the UNESCO’s World Heritage Archaeological site of Mystras, also called the ”wonder of the Morea” which retained its completeness as a fortified urban unit of the late-Byzantine period. We arrive at the hotel, get settled and start our journey to the fortress town of Mystras with the outstanding universal value. We will visit the well-preserved monuments which strongly demonstrate its importance as one of the most notable administrative and ecclesiastical centers of its era. Specifically, we will admire the Metropolis or church of Hagios Demetrios, Hodegetria and Pantanassa as well as the palace complex, the old and majestic mansions and houses. Once our tour of Mystras is completed, we will take the road to the city of Sparta, with a stop at Kaiadas, the chasm of death, the place where the Ancient Spartans threw the criminals, the traitors, the prisoners and possibly even deformed infants, as Pausanias and Thucydides wrote. In the city of Sparta, we will visit the Museum of Olive and Greek Olive Oil, which is the introduction to the history and culture of olive oil production in Greece. We will continue our tour on foot and we will sightsee the bust of King Leonidas the stands at the entrance to the National Stadium of Sparta, where it’s believed that the bones of the kings of Sparta and the heroes of Thermopylae still lie buried there. We will climb up to the ancient Acropolis of Sparta and we will admire the Roman theater as well as the outstanding view of the city that spreads out like a chessboard. We return to the hotel to enjoy a delicious dinner. Free time for relaxation.

We take our tasteful breakfast at the hotel and we depart for the most known UNESCO’s world heritage archaeological site, the Acropolis Sacred Rock. We will admire the Parthenon, the place where Democracy developed, and then we visit the New Acropolis Museum. Leaving behind the amazing monument, we walk to the pedestrian streets visiting the Theatre of Dionysos, the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, the Ancient Agora, the Roman Agora, the Tower of the Winds and the Stoa of Attalus. We continue our day to the National Gardens, the Parliament and Changing of the Guard, Zappeion, the Temple of Olympian Zeus and the Panathenaic StadiumTemple. In the afternoon you deserve free time for relaxation, shopping or get ready for a unique nightlife experience.

We take our tasteful breakfast at the hotel and we depart for the airport to return back home.