Mycenaean frescoes are the painted wall decorations that once covered the Bronze Age palaces of mainland Greece, the citadel of Mycenae among them. Painters spread mineral colours over wet lime plaster in a technique carried across from the Minoans of Crete, filling halls, corridors and shrines with bright scenes. Their palette ran to red, blue, … Read more
The palace of Mycenae crowned the highest point of the citadel, rising above the Lion Gate and the grave circles that guard the slope below. Here the rulers of Mycenae held their seat through the Late Bronze Age, governing the surrounding kingdom from a hall built for command and ceremony. Courtyards, corridors and storerooms spread … Read more
The Museum of Asian Art Corfu, housed in the grand Palace of St Michael and St George, a neoclassical building on the Esplanade, is the only museum of its type in the country, holding around 15,000 Chinese, Japanese and other Asian works of art. This guide covers the palace, the collection, the highlights and how … Read more
The Achilleion Palace is a neoclassical summer palace near Corfu Town, built in the late nineteenth century for the Austro-Hungarian Empress Elisabeth, known as Sisi, and devoted to the myth of Achilles. Its marble statues, frescoes and terraced gardens overlook the Ionian Sea. This guide covers the palace’s history, the gardens and statues, the tickets … Read more