Visit the city of Leonidas and the 300 brave Spartan soldiers who fought the Persians at Thermopyles in 480 B.C.
Cross the gate of Mystras Byzantine town, crowned by the Castle of the 13th c. to visit the Palaces, the original paved streets and the unique churches of this phantom town, inhabited until 1834 and meet the Orthodox nuns at Pantanassa Nunnery!
Sparta has the only Olive-Oil Museum in Greece so, if interested, you’ll learn a lot about the main production of the area.
