Mycenae Hotels - Reviews and Rates

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MYCENAE On our second day we took the bus (2.50 Euro) from Nafplio to the ancient site of Mycenea (4 Euro concession). Mycenae was the main center of the Mycenaean world (which l found out predates the Egyptians), and gave its name to a period and a civilization that evolved throughout the entire Greek world between the 16th and 12th c. BC and s...

I took a trip to Mycenae for the day, It would have been easier to find a need in hay. Some transit employees smiled warmly as I missed my bus. When I missed my stop, others made no fuss. A forty minute trip to see an archaeological site Took three hours against my better travel insight. Arrived in town, and with a local did talk. Only to discov...

Paulie and I cooked eggs and bacon for breakfast this morning. We sat and ate a leisurely meal before heading out in our van. Today was Mycenae. Mycenae wasn't a long drive from Nafplio. The hardest part was navigating the narrow streets out of Nafplio from the pension. It took one person standing behind the van, one in front and one driving to...

We head from Athens to Corinth where we have some difficulty finding a hotel. We finally settle for a dorm-style bed in the basement of this old lady's hotel. She offers us books in Italian and Norwegian to read, despite knowing that we both speak English. Corinth is rather small, but the ancient city was worth a visit. The next day (after deali...

10/17/2005 Mycenae Mycenae is one of the oldest cities in Greece that has been constantly inhabited. This site has been excavated by Schliemann in the 1800s. Much of what we saw were the walls that we still partially standing. They were what are called "cyclopean" because of the size of the stones, boulders, rocks used. The beehive tomb of "Agam...