On the side of the museum, starts the road to the entrance of the archaeological site, or maybe i should call them archaeological excavations.
When we got at the site, we saw more archaeologists than visitors and things did not change much even after a couple of hours when we finished our tour.
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Ancient Messene (part I)
Ancient Messene is one of the less known and most underrated large archaeological sites, even by the Greeks. In my opinion, it would be a big mistake to be in the area and not visiting it. Let’s not forget that it is from here that left the Greeks who lived and gave their name to Messina in Sicily!
Sparta : there is more than Mystras
Ancient Spartans, as we know, have not left many traces of their existence. They did not think it was important to construct monuments and temples and so, after their extinction overwhelmed by the nearby Mystras Byzantine civilization, the only thing left of them were the myths about their courage and their original philosophy of life and very little else … yes little else, but there is something!