Mystras, Peloponnese

Known as Myzithras in the “Chronicle of the Morea”, Mystras is a fortified ancient Byzantine city. Located in Laconia on Mt. Taygetos near Sparta, back in the 14th and 15th centuries the city flourished as the capital of the Byzantine Despotate of the Morea. In the year 1242 the young Prince William II of Villehardouin built the now-famous fortress known as Mystras.

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