Mycenae

Located on the eastern Peloponnese, about 150 km southeast of Athens, the ancient town of Mycenae is one of the most important historical and archaeological sites in Greece.

The city inspired the epic poet Homer to write his two famous poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, while it also gave its name to an entire historical period, the Mycenaean civilization, which flourished in Greece from approximately 1600 to 1100 BC, reaching its peak around the 13th century.

The settlement was excavated for the first time by the archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann, who also excavated the cities of Troy and Tyrins, thus gaining the name “the father of Mycenaean Archaeology”.