A Poros day trip from Nafplio drives across the Argolid to Galatas, crosses the narrow strait to the island of Poros, and returns to Nafplio the same evening. Tours across the rest of the country are listed on Greece Tours. The sections below cover the tours you can book, the road, the crossing, timing, the … Read more
A Mycenae day trip from Hydra starts with a short boat crossing to the mainland, then drives through the Argolid to the Bronze Age citadel of Mycenae, with stops at Epidaurus and Nafplio. Tours across the rest of the country are listed on Greece Tours. The sections below cover the tour you can book, the … Read more
A Mycenae day trip from Corinth is a drive south from the isthmus past Nemea to the Bronze Age citadel of Agamemnon in the Argolid, with time for the Lion Gate, the royal tombs and the museum. Tours across the rest of the country are listed on Greece Tours. The sections below cover the tours … Read more
A Hydra day trip from Nafplio is a long day from the Argolid to the car-free island of Hydra, by tour boat or by road and a short ferry, with time in Hydra town and a swim. Tours across the rest of the country are listed on Greece Tours. The sections below cover the tours … Read more
A Mycenae private tour is a visit to the Bronze Age citadel of Mycenae in the Argolid by private car or minivan, with a driver and a licensed guide for your group alone, starting from Athens, Nafplio or Corinth. Tours across the rest of the country are listed on Greece Tours. The sections below cover … Read more
The Dendra panoply is a near-complete suit of Mycenaean bronze plate armour, one of the most important finds of Bronze Age Europe. Excavators unearthed it at Dendra in the Argolid, close to Mycenae, inside a chamber tomb near the ancient site of Midea. The armour dates to around the fifteenth century before the common era, … Read more
Mykines is the small modern village that sits at the foot of the archaeological site of Mycenae, in the Argolid region of the Peloponnese. It carries the name of the ancient city on the hill above and serves as the everyday base for reaching the citadel, the museum and the tholos tombs. A single main … Read more
The Tomb of Clytemnestra is a large Bronze Age tholos, or beehive tomb, standing at Mycenae near the Lion Gate and the grave circles below the citadel walls. It ranks second in size and grandeur only to the Treasury of Atreus. The chamber belongs to a ring of monumental tombs built for the rulers of … Read more
Mycenae began as a small hilltop settlement in the Argolid and grew into the leading centre of Bronze Age Greece, lending its name to a whole civilization. Its rulers gathered wealth, raised Cyclopean walls, and buried their dead in gold-filled graves and great domed tombs. From this fortified citadel they reached out across the Argolid … Read more
Tiryns is a fortified Bronze Age citadel on the Argolid plain of the Peloponnese, a short drive from Mycenae and close to the town of Nafplio. It ranked among the great centres of the Mycenaean world, its low hill crowned by walls of astonishing scale. Massive stone ramparts wrap the summit, pierced by long corbelled … Read more
Grave Circle B is the older of the two royal grave circles at Mycenae, lying just outside the walls of the citadel a short distance from the Lion Gate. It holds shaft graves and simpler cist graves where early rulers were buried with pottery, weapons, jewellery and gold objects, though with less gold than the … Read more
Grave Circle A is a royal cemetery of deep shaft graves lying inside the walls of the citadel of Mycenae, just beyond the great gateway. A double ring of upright stone slabs marks the circle, which held the bodies of men, women and children of the early ruling house. The graves belong to the dawn … Read more