Mystras or Mistras, also known as Myzithras in the Chronicle of the Morea, is a fortified town and a former municipality in Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece. Situated on Mt. Taygetos, near ancient Sparta, it served as the capital of the Byzantine Despotate of the Morea in the 14th and 15th centuries, experiencing a period of prosperity and cultural flowering during the Palaeologan Renaissance, including the teachings of Gemistus Pletho. The city also attracted artists and architects of the highest quality. The site remained inhabited throughout the Ottoman period, when it was mistaken by Western travellers for ancient Sparta. In the 1830s, it was abandoned and the new town of Sparti was built, approximately eight kilometres to the east.
Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Sparti, of which it is a municipal unit.
Nov - Mar: 8 am - 3 pm
Apr - Aug: 8 am - 8 pm
Sep 1 - 15: 8 am - 7:30 pm
Sep 16 - 30: 8 am - 6:30 pm
Oct: 8 am - 5:30 pm
Closed on: Jan 1, Mar 25, May 1, Easter Sun, Dec 25 and 26
Full: €5
Reduced: €3
Free admission on: Mar 6, Jun 5, Apr 18, May 18, the last weekend of Sep, every first Sun from Nov to Mar, Oct 28
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystras
Official website http://odysseus.culture.gr/h/3/eh355.jsp?obj_id=2397
UNESCO website http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/511
Phone +30 27 31 08 33 77
Address (Unnamed Road), 23150, Greece
Coordinates 37°4'31.156" N 22°22'9.291" E
