MYSTRA - MYSTRAS
En Laconie, près de l’antique Sparte, sur une pente du massif montagneux du Taygète, Mystra, ville morte inscrite au patrimoine mondial de l’Unesco dresse ses églises magnifiques parmi des ruines émouvantes.
Quelques photos des ruines de Mystra et de ses belles églises byzantines. Malheureusement, tout comme aux Météores, on ne peut pas photographier l'intérieur des églises.
Some pictures of the ruins of Mystra and its beautiful Byzantine churches. Unfortunately, just as the Meteors, it can not be photographed inside churches.
Mystras was a fortified town in Morea (the Peloponnesus), on Mt. Taygetos, near ancient Sparta. It lies approximately eight kilometres west of the modern town of Sparti.
It belongs to the UNESCO World Heritage.
In 1249, Mystras became the seat of the Latin Principality of Achaea, established in 1205 after the conquest of Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade, and Prince William II Villehardouin, a grand-nephew of the Fourth Crusade historian Geoffrey of Villehardouin, built a palace there. Mystras was also the last centre of Byzantine scholarship.