Mycenae is an ancient stronghold of the Greek land, a place from epic. Homer called the city "broad-streeted" and "golden"; the citadel flourished in the 2. millenium BC, but as early as in Late Antiquity Mycenae was alredy a historical monument, a tourist destination.
It's been popular among tourists since then.
...and tokens of spring and new life...
It's been popular among tourists since then.
Approaching the citadel...
The "Lion Gate" attracts (in all senses of the word) those wishing to behold the habitat of the Bronze Age heroes.
Ancient graves contain the remains of the remote epoch.
One sees distant mountains from here...
Something flourishes here still now...
Treading down the old place...
The "Treasury of Atreus" is called also the "Tomb of Agamemnon". Such were the names of mythic lords of Mycenae. Neither of them probably laid here, but why not connect the famous heroes with the grand monument?
Heinrich Schliemann who excavated Mycenae thought it to be the mask of king Agamemnon, a hero from the Iliad.
These museum things once were, so to say, inhabitants of Ancient Mycenae too.
Other scarce traces of olden times...
...and tokens of spring and new life...
And the road now goes back from Mycenae...
