As a Greek myself I can't stop but to marvel at how beatiful and cozy Sparta looks surounded by the mountains and it has this "village" feeling to it compared to Athens or Thessaloniki for example. Love this video!
Thank you for your comments, and kind comment re the video. I agree, Sparta has a real charm, and with Mystras so close is a great day out if you like exploring history.
Wow, Mystras is stunning. You have given me a new place to dream about visiting. I enjoy your channel and your style of delivering information! Greetings from the US.
Some of my favorite memories are in Sparta and Mystras. We went into the acropolis at sunset and the golden hue made it look like we were in the 300 movie lol Mystras too was incredible. The ruins and atmosphere are so peaceful. I will like to just note that Sparta was not abandoned after the Visigoths and actually made quite the comeback, especially in the 10-11th centuries. There are the ruins of the Cathedral of Sparta built in the Acropolis sometime in the 7th century, and 3 churches built by St. Nikon where he spent the remainder of his days in Sparta converting the last pagan Spartans who are known today as the Maniots, most of which lived in the Taygetos mountains after the Vandals. But this history is very little known unfortunately. But as you said, there is so much history it's impossible to add it in one video. Great video, my friend! You gave Mystras the honor it deserves, and I learned a so much more about Sparta that I never knew before.
Thank you, I am glad you enjoyed. I try to do my best with the history and facts but m no expert, and what you add is so informative. Certainly the history was complicated. A lot of Spartans abandoned the city in the 6th century and moved in panic to Monemvasia, establishing the origins of the Byzantine castle there (they were fleeing Plague). I only found that out after I had made the video. I love Greece for that, so much history. What blows my mind is the age of the known and traceable history too. 1000AD is old in the UK, 2600BC is old in Greece....
@@GreeceExplored definitely! I visited Cape Sounion last month while I was in Greece, and surprised it was in the game. So nice to see what it looked like over 2000 years ago--Acropolis too, of course
@@GreeceExplored Sparta and Mount Olympus are on my next travel plan when I go to Greece again; Shame that Spata doesn’t seem to realise the enormous tourism potential that they have and really use their resources. That UNESCO site from your video, I am so intrigued! Add onto my list now :D
Great video sir. I have always wanted to visit Greece. Amazing important history and a beautiful country and people. Wish I were there. Much respect from across the pond on the beautiful Gulf Coast, USA
i visited in '99 and stayed a long late greek easter weekend. stood on my balcony and listened as the marching band played the burial theme with tubas, drums and other brass instruments. beautiful area with snow and oranges. visited Mystras and was the first person at the gate. so I got in for free. my plan was to go over the mountains to kalamata but chickened out after close encounter with a bad driver, the sheer size of the mountains and the lack of a good highway. Plus my car car was burning oil. turned around and spent a week in Monavasia (?). another beautiful place. Glytheio, Mani, Sparta, and Monavasia all worth the time in Peloponnese.
Glad I brought back some good memories for you, the Peloponnese is fab, I totally agree! Thank you for taking the time to comment and share your memories too!
Another thing I liked about this video is seeing fruiting trees for anyone who's walking by, awesome!. I'd love to visit Sparta one day all day touring everything eating oranges 🥰🥰
@GreeceExplored yeah very cool to see Sparta, so much rich history, those spartan warriors were absolutely the toughest in the world during that era. Crazy yet is from the ages of 8 they were taken from there families, and basically put in boot camp for many many years, hand to hand combat, many died due to the hard training. But the toughest survived amd become elite warriors. Love it!. They were far stronger than any modern day soldier, even american soldiers are weak compared to them..
It's so cool to see this, leonidas and the 300 of his guards fought thousands upon thousands, wave after waves of Persians. And almost held the hot gates! It's amazing how they were to defend off all that for 3 days of battle, very very tough dudes these soldiers were, back in the say Sparta had by far the most bad ass soldiers in the known world. It was sad that they threw there disabled children off the mountain though. But they thought it was ok to do so. Only the strongest could live in Sparta back in the day. Only the strongest civilians
I really appreciate the historical perspective of the cities you visit and show. We get to see the modern city but experience the history. Your channel just came up to view and I was happy to subscribe. I would also love to see northern Greece , the villages of Pelion or Volos for example, if you ever make it there in the summer.
And I really appreciate your subscription! I really do. I have a couple more months of vids from Southern Greece. Then I have to go to the UK for a couple of months, and will do similar videos there during (I hope you remain subscribed during!) Later in the year I will be back in Greece and will try to go north.
Your videos are very interesting and helpful. My grandparents came to Ellis Island from Greece in 1914 and I'm finally going this Autumn. I'm definitely going to Sparta.
You will enjoy, Autumn is a fab time to explore the Peloponnese too, there are so many good places within easy reach, and not too hot for hiking. Glad you found my vids of use and Thankyou!!
Another wonderful video Andrew! I happen to work for a big multi-national telecom company, and we have an r&d site in Athens. One of my colleagues was a developer called Leonidas, and he was actually from Sparta! Ok, probably dozens, if not hundreds, of people in Sparta called Leonidas, but I thought it was pretty cool still 😎
Thank you, really kind encouragement from you. I prefer sites like that, or towns I can learn about, that have a past. However I also want to try to upload every week, as I try to build this channel, so have to select a variety, there are only finite places I can visit. If you, (or anyone else) has suggestions of places I could visit, please let me know. Any suggestions would be really appreciated.
@@GreeceExplored Here's some I would find interesting: Corinth (new and old), Monemvasia, Patras, Messini. Any interesting little town with some historical context would be great. Some lesser known neighborhoods in Athens perhaps (I see you've already covered Chalandri)
@@francoisbouchard9488 Agreed, Monemvasia and Patras are on my list, hoping to do Patras this month during the carnival, but will have to see. Also may get up to Meteora. Will repeat some in the summer to, and then there is Pascha.
Sparti & the surrounding areas have much to offer those who take the time to explore her. It’s just unfortunate that Lakonia in general is run by a bunch of useless clowns when it comes to tourism. You visited the Leonidas statue which hasn’t had any maintenance done to it in years, there is no information panels telling visitors about the history of the statue, who built it etc. The archaeological museum is indeed a little gem but admission is not free as you mentioned in your commentary, if I’m not mistaken the last time I visited I paid €3 to enter.
What a beautiful tour you've provided. Mystras is so green and lush. Does it stay like this throughout the entire year, or does the vegetation dry up and die off in the peak summer season?
Something you dont know too , the helots as slaves of the spartans that left nothing behind , were giving to them 50% of the crop .. (( the barbaric spartans were paying the slave helots half of their work production ))) the same work system exists till today .. if you are looking someones land ,, you take half of what you produce.. here we see the heritage of spartans in the sparta today
Very beautiful city sparta❤❤ very wonderful and beauty villages We will visit here on vacation 🇮🇳🇮🇳❤🇬🇷🇬🇷 I didn't know anything about the city before but when I got to know it I really liked it
Thank you I like your guy on the street type attitude and the places that you showed very good stuff thank you. Yes you did have one section where you moved the camera a little too much but to be honest I would be the exact same way I would like people to see everything it's just not possible 👍😊
Thank you, I made that a couple of years ago and hopefully I have got better!! new camera now and more experience! I may re-film it next year, with a different angle of course.
The tomb of Leonidas is most likely a monument for Leonidas and not his actual burial place. The burial mound of the 300 Spartan heroes is at Thermopylae, as for Leonidas himself Xerxes had him dismembered so I'm not sure if he ever had a proper burial.
@@weirdowolfstudio5409 Yes, the burial mound at Thermopylae is marked with the famous plaque. Of course, all the bones of the Spartans and the Thespians who died with them are nothing but earth now.
I for one love history. We had a lot of fun looking for Sparta in a recent vlog. We are excited, as a father-son team of Anthropologists to be doing a World tour of 390 UNESCO World Heritage sites including this one soon. Cheers and thanks for sharing your footage of this amazing place. I hope you consider sending us any recommendations you have and let us know if you want to link up for possible future collabs. Cheers! - Turtle and Bear
Thank you. If you like little known UNESCO sites you could also visit Tiryns near Nafplio, it was the home of Hercules (I have a video). Ultimately part of the Mycenaean civilisation but there were so many city states and 'kings' or warlords at that time. I appreciate the encouragement. for me it is a hobby I really enjoy, but if you are in the Argos or Peloponnese area let me know, happily meet up and discuss collab options! Email me if you want.
@@GreeceExplored Nice! I will check out the video. We were in Peloponnese a few months ago filming a road trip through the ancient city-states. The area was amazing. We might be back on our World Tour. Looking forward to keeping in touch.
Sparta was a unique civilisation...greek by all means. But very peculiar one even for the others Greek polis, especially Athens... At a historical scale Sparta was short lived... Not much writting remained ... Spartans cared so much less for building material & intelectual constructions../ they lived for battles only... Not much interest in procreation too... Two kings at the same time and gerusia as elders assembly... Very few inhabitans...not more than 10.000 ... Anyway for these features Sparta is still in our minds today!
I agree, Greece as a whole was pretty small, ancient Hellenic Greece. I used to have to study it at school as a kd and it was only once I lived here, in the Peloponnese I realised just how close everything I learnt about is. I assumed in my mind we were talking 100's of miles between places, not 10 or 20 km .... and the Spartans were pretty unique in that world too, and relatively short lived as you say, not enough of them to prosper.
Could you imagine being one of the 300 back then facing that army knowing you are going to die in that battle, just reminds me of brad pitts line in Troy as Achilles “that’s why no one will remember your name” they must have had just a real desire for glory to the death a willingness to take on anything and the confidence within themselves
The Spartans were very interested in philosophy and arts bit there aproch was different from that of the Athenians....the ruins aren't much because as like Elgin vandalized the Acropolis, Avas Fermont long before Elgin ....vandalized Sparta. He tore everything from the ground up evey single rock was turned up side down and sold all over Europe.
They are, they look great don't they. There are huge numbers in the Peloponnese and quite common in the towns etc. The oranges are ready in January usually.
My husband was from there...i have stayed in the city for three months...we also went to MYSTRAS and GYTHION...In Keadas cave they executed the condemned to death, the consuls, the traitors, the criminals and the prisoners of war, not the sick children...thats a myth...
Unfortunatelly there s not much to see or do in sparta... most of the ancient city is burried beneath the modern one, which is pretty uncharming and unindersting as well... Mystras on the other hand is purely magnificent, one of the best and kind of overlooked greek medieval sites.. the village of mystras is really cute too!
They found the location they believed was the mountain used for the sacrifices and when they looked at the bottom all they found was adult male bones no infant bones whatsoever. You should keep updated
The true Sparta looks alot nicer than the crappy one I grew up in here in Tennessee lol but seriously I think I would love to be able to get a chance to spend time in Greece and just travel around and see all these historical places and from pictures I've seen beaches look amazing. I'm curious what are those trees all over the place there that have the fruit on them I couldn't see too plainly what they were but that's definitely something you don't see around here
Depends on the time of year, there are a lot of orange trees, and olive trees in the Peloponnese, they are the main ones generally. I am glad you enjoyed my videos too!! thanks for watching and commenting
Michel Fourmond a French Catholic Priest. If it wasn't for him there would probably be a lot more to see from ancient Sparta. In 1729 after recieving a permit from the sultan to research and study any archaeological site within the Ottoman empire he started very secretly and delicately destroying piece by piece the archaeological sites he visited. Sparta was his fifth destination. In his memoires he was bragging about his achievements.
@@GreeceExploredwhy you dont know, ? Is it forbidden jubject the archeological destruction of greece? Over greek temples were build churches also. Priest tried to destroy acropolis too and the british were exporting the art work? Have you ever heard of elgin?
hey just head up minor correction it wasnt the thebians and athenians who defeated sparta it was the thebians and persians who defeated sparta who were allied with the athenians to try push them back
Mystras is one of the best sites to see on the PELOPPONESE…if not in Greece. I stayed in Sparta 3 nights visited the Sparta Acropolis and the museum which is very small and quite modest. It’s not what this author suggests
Very nice video describing Sparta. However you could've also mentioned the person that really eradicated Sparta's ancient monuments, Michel Fourmont. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Fourmont
For anyone with a love for history and Sparta if you’re willing to read get your eyes on The Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield you’ll love it I promise
It's a good read, like all of Pressfield's books, yet very americanised. Getting a grip on the actual battle is a hard task. For such a small engagement there's a lot to unpack as Herodotus' and Diodorus' accounts are deeply problematic. Many questions with few concrete answers - that's what we're left with.
It is really the town in location and name only, most of that which was historical has been built over or disappeared. The Spartans were not great builders, like say Athens.
@@GreeceExplored cool. I also wanted to ask was there really a temple of ares near sparta and if so are there still some parts of the temple still around?
@@OG420grandmaster I believe there were 3 temples to Ares, in the area, only one in Sparta itself, and no longer in existence. The Spartans worshipped Ares no more than the other gods, there were about 150 temples in total in the Spartan area, they were very pious.
100% Athens, I would not go to Sparta unless in the area.... Athens is not cheap, but can be done cheap. If you need to save on hotels, stay in Kifissia and get the metro the 30 mins in every day.
As a Greek myself I can't stop but to marvel at how beatiful and cozy Sparta looks surounded by the mountains and it has this "village" feeling to it compared to Athens or Thessaloniki for example. Love this video!
Thank you for your comments, and kind comment re the video. I agree, Sparta has a real charm, and with Mystras so close is a great day out if you like exploring history.
😀😀😀.can you explain me what does word Spartan means and why was called spartan
The orange trees lining the streets are something I have never seen in any city, ever. Active fruit trees just everywhere. Cool!
Greece is beautiful! and that video was filmed in january
I just want to move there and live there now!
Yup 100%
Wow, Mystras is stunning. You have given me a new place to dream about visiting. I enjoy your channel and your style of delivering information! Greetings from the US.
It is, a hard climb though! Glad you are enjoying thank you!
¡Beautiful and amazing Sparta! Someday I will visit this incredible city. Greetings from Argentina 🇦🇷
Greetings Argentina, and thank you for your comment. I hope you get to visit.
Some of my favorite memories are in Sparta and Mystras. We went into the acropolis at sunset and the golden hue made it look like we were in the 300 movie lol Mystras too was incredible. The ruins and atmosphere are so peaceful.
I will like to just note that Sparta was not abandoned after the Visigoths and actually made quite the comeback, especially in the 10-11th centuries. There are the ruins of the Cathedral of Sparta built in the Acropolis sometime in the 7th century, and 3 churches built by St. Nikon where he spent the remainder of his days in Sparta converting the last pagan Spartans who are known today as the Maniots, most of which lived in the Taygetos mountains after the Vandals. But this history is very little known unfortunately. But as you said, there is so much history it's impossible to add it in one video.
Great video, my friend! You gave Mystras the honor it deserves, and I learned a so much more about Sparta that I never knew before.
Thank you, I am glad you enjoyed. I try to do my best with the history and facts but m no expert, and what you add is so informative. Certainly the history was complicated. A lot of Spartans abandoned the city in the 6th century and moved in panic to Monemvasia, establishing the origins of the Byzantine castle there (they were fleeing Plague). I only found that out after I had made the video. I love Greece for that, so much history. What blows my mind is the age of the known and traceable history too. 1000AD is old in the UK, 2600BC is old in Greece....
@@GreeceExplored🤣🤣🤣 And 1600 is old in America !
@@montvilleo I know, and v v modern here. I can show you stone buildings here dating from 2800bc
I’ve been playing throughout this Christmas break, and I ended up here ❤ Thanks for the video
Glad you enjoyed, I also enjoyed that game, is fun when you know the area too!
@@GreeceExplored definitely! I visited Cape Sounion last month while I was in Greece, and surprised it was in the game. So nice to see what it looked like over 2000 years ago--Acropolis too, of course
@@GreeceExplored Sparta and Mount Olympus are on my next travel plan when I go to Greece again; Shame that Spata doesn’t seem to realise the enormous tourism potential that they have and really use their resources. That UNESCO site from your video, I am so intrigued! Add onto my list now :D
I once met someone who spoke Greek. I told them I knew one word "Malala" from that game. They were astounded i knew a swear word
Great video sir. I have always wanted to visit Greece. Amazing important history and a beautiful country and people. Wish I were there. Much respect from across the pond on the beautiful Gulf Coast, USA
Happy New Year to you and thanks you for your kind comments!, I hope you get to visit one day!
Great video. Sparta looks like a piece of Heaven to me.
Unbelievably beautiful I must say!
Another excellent video! Coming to you first saves me a lot of time. Thanks.
I am delighted if it was useful!! Thank you for commenting too.!
I play assassin creed odessey and i learned so much about leonidas,sparta and athens
I enjoyed that game too, some things like Sparta was unrecognisable to me, but others, like Epidavros - I could recognise the individual buildings!
Thank you for the video 🥰
Thank you for leaving a comment too!
Cool video. Thanks for posting. Greeting from the US 🇺🇸
Thank you - Glad you enjoyed!! And welcome from Greece!
i visited in '99 and stayed a long late greek easter weekend. stood on my balcony and listened as the marching band played the burial theme with tubas, drums and other brass instruments. beautiful area with snow and oranges. visited Mystras and was the first person at the gate. so I got in for free. my plan was to go over the mountains to kalamata but chickened out after close encounter with a bad driver, the sheer size of the mountains and the lack of a good highway. Plus my car car was burning oil. turned around and spent a week in Monavasia (?). another beautiful place. Glytheio, Mani, Sparta, and Monavasia all worth the time in Peloponnese.
Glad I brought back some good memories for you, the Peloponnese is fab, I totally agree! Thank you for taking the time to comment and share your memories too!
You are the best I have seen online on explaining Greek sites.
That is very kind of you, thank you!
Another thing I liked about this video is seeing fruiting trees for anyone who's walking by, awesome!. I'd love to visit Sparta one day all day touring everything eating oranges 🥰🥰
Thank you, I am go again in April I think and take a different angle, glad you enjoyed
@GreeceExplored yeah very cool to see Sparta, so much rich history, those spartan warriors were absolutely the toughest in the world during that era. Crazy yet is from the ages of 8 they were taken from there families, and basically put in boot camp for many many years, hand to hand combat, many died due to the hard training. But the toughest survived amd become elite warriors. Love it!. They were far stronger than any modern day soldier, even american soldiers are weak compared to them..
Lovely little tour with practical information! I didn’t realize Sparta had palm trees 🌴
Thank you and yes, 300 days of sunshine a year!!
Thank you for the video. I find the story of the Spartans fascinating.
The whole of Ancient Greece is interesting the bronze age period (to 1250bc) especially.
thanks for the video sir
Thank you for commenting!
Beautiful oranges 🙌🏻🍊
They are! I think I took them for granted too.
It's so cool to see this, leonidas and the 300 of his guards fought thousands upon thousands, wave after waves of Persians. And almost held the hot gates! It's amazing how they were to defend off all that for 3 days of battle, very very tough dudes these soldiers were, back in the say Sparta had by far the most bad ass soldiers in the known world. It was sad that they threw there disabled children off the mountain though. But they thought it was ok to do so. Only the strongest could live in Sparta back in the day. Only the strongest civilians
I really appreciate this video can’t wait make it there myself 😊
The whole of the Peloponnese is awash with history, and beautiful to explore. I hope you manage to visit!
Amazing video and channel my friend❤️. Wish you all the best❤️
Thank you, really kind of you.
Thanks Andrew. Very interesting.
I am glad you enjoyed.
Great stuff! I wish there was more of these warriors but they were fighters .
lad you enjoyed - Thanks for commenting!
I really appreciate the historical perspective of the cities you visit and show. We get to see the modern city but experience the history. Your channel just came up to view and I was happy to subscribe. I would also love to see northern Greece , the villages of Pelion or Volos for example, if you ever make it there in the summer.
And I really appreciate your subscription! I really do. I have a couple more months of vids from Southern Greece. Then I have to go to the UK for a couple of months, and will do similar videos there during (I hope you remain subscribed during!) Later in the year I will be back in Greece and will try to go north.
The climate must be temperate with orange trees bearing fruit and palms. looks absolutely lovely.
Thank you for the video!
Thank you.
Your videos are very interesting and helpful. My grandparents came to Ellis Island from Greece in 1914 and I'm finally going this Autumn. I'm definitely going to Sparta.
You will enjoy, Autumn is a fab time to explore the Peloponnese too, there are so many good places within easy reach, and not too hot for hiking. Glad you found my vids of use and Thankyou!!
Very nice buddy
Thank you, glad you enjoyed.
Very interesting. Well done.
Glad you enjoyed, Thanks!!
POV I never seen before! Thanks for sharing
Glad you enjoyed, thank you!
Another wonderful video Andrew! I happen to work for a big multi-national telecom company, and we have an r&d site in Athens. One of my colleagues was a developer called Leonidas, and he was actually from Sparta! Ok, probably dozens, if not hundreds, of people in Sparta called Leonidas, but I thought it was pretty cool still 😎
Thank you, really kind encouragement from you. I prefer sites like that, or towns I can learn about, that have a past. However I also want to try to upload every week, as I try to build this channel, so have to select a variety, there are only finite places I can visit. If you, (or anyone else) has suggestions of places I could visit, please let me know. Any suggestions would be really appreciated.
@@GreeceExplored Here's some I would find interesting: Corinth (new and old), Monemvasia, Patras, Messini. Any interesting little town with some historical context would be great. Some lesser known neighborhoods in Athens perhaps (I see you've already covered Chalandri)
@@francoisbouchard9488 Agreed, Monemvasia and Patras are on my list, hoping to do Patras this month during the carnival, but will have to see. Also may get up to Meteora. Will repeat some in the summer to, and then there is Pascha.
Sparti & the surrounding areas have much to offer those who take the time to explore her. It’s just unfortunate that Lakonia in general is run by a bunch of useless clowns when it comes to tourism. You visited the Leonidas statue which hasn’t had any maintenance done to it in years, there is no information panels telling visitors about the history of the statue, who built it etc. The archaeological museum is indeed a little gem but admission is not free as you mentioned in your commentary, if I’m not mistaken the last time I visited I paid €3 to enter.
Thankyou❤
Glad you enjoyed and thank you for commenting
What a beautiful tour you've provided. Mystras is so green and lush. Does it stay like this throughout the entire year, or does the vegetation dry up and die off in the peak summer season?
it dries up especially in July and August. It feels like the weather is changing in Greece, perhaps becoming sub-tropical, so who knows in the future.
Greetings from USA I’d love to visit there a day
Make sure to visit Mystras 6km down the road, that is the real gem
Nice informative video
Thank you, really appreciate your comment. Glad you enjoyed!
I want to go to Sparta so I can enjoy one of those oranges … seriously I can’t imagine someone starving there
Agreed, very fertile lands, Sparta and Argos.
Something you dont know too , the helots as slaves of the spartans that left nothing behind , were giving to them 50% of the crop .. (( the barbaric spartans were paying the slave helots half of their work production ))) the same work system exists till today .. if you are looking someones land ,, you take half of what you produce.. here we see the heritage of spartans in the sparta today
Thank you
Great video, really enjoyed it :)
Thank you. Mani soon
Brilliant video. Apparently Leonidas was red headed, which shocked me when researching
Thank you, really appreciate that, well, there were a lot of migrations from the Russian steppes prior to about 2500BC
Greetings from Bucarest ROMANIA 🍀
And Greetings from Greece
@@GreeceExplored MULȚUMESC!
Very beautiful city sparta❤❤ very wonderful and beauty villages
We will visit here on vacation
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I didn't know anything about the city before but when I got to know it I really liked it
I hope you enjoy, You should look at Ancient Messini too, not far, and you must visit Mystras. It will be hot though. Nafplio is also worth a visit.
@@GreeceExplored thanks you 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Born place of Kratos (Cratous)
Watching because of "God of War - Ghost of Sparta" btw your vid was interesting
Good job. 👍💯
Glad you enjoyed!
I can tell the Greeks are nice because they arent beeping obnoxiously in their cars at each other.
greatly appreciated the tour.
Please adjust your mic for a constant volume level.
Glad you enjoyed, I use a better camera and Mic now.
Thank you I like your guy on the street type attitude and the places that you showed very good stuff thank you. Yes you did have one section where you moved the camera a little too much but to be honest I would be the exact same way I would like people to see everything it's just not possible 👍😊
Thank you, I made that a couple of years ago and hopefully I have got better!! new camera now and more experience! I may re-film it next year, with a different angle of course.
a place i definitely wanna visit
Tie it in with other places nearby, Kalamata, Ancient Messini, Nafplio. Thank for commenting!
@@GreeceExplored ok I'll keep it in mind
Sir, yours has been the best
synopsis of alluring Sparta. 0:15 0:15 0:15
Thank you - really appreciated!
The tomb of Leonidas is most likely a monument for Leonidas and not his actual burial place. The burial mound of the 300 Spartan heroes is at Thermopylae, as for Leonidas himself Xerxes had him dismembered so I'm not sure if he ever had a proper burial.
Thanks for the information, great thing about history, no one really knows!! but you are likely right. Glad you enjoyed the video!
Xerxes was a bit butthurt to go for such effort
They ever find that mound
@@weirdowolfstudio5409 Yes, the burial mound at Thermopylae is marked with the famous plaque. Of course, all the bones of the Spartans and the Thespians who died with them are nothing but earth now.
So apparently the spartans got the remains of leonidas and had burrial with his remains. It could be the actual tomb but i doubt that
how cool it is being called "Spartan" frommm Spartan Greece
They are very proud of their heritage!
My father birth place and where I went and still go every summer for vacancies to my yaya and papou.
It is a beautiful area, as you know!
I for one love history. We had a lot of fun looking for Sparta in a recent vlog. We are excited, as a father-son team of Anthropologists to be doing a World tour of 390 UNESCO World Heritage sites including this one soon. Cheers and thanks for sharing your footage of this amazing place. I hope you consider sending us any recommendations you have and let us know if you want to link up for possible future collabs. Cheers! - Turtle and Bear
Thank you. If you like little known UNESCO sites you could also visit Tiryns near Nafplio, it was the home of Hercules (I have a video). Ultimately part of the Mycenaean civilisation but there were so many city states and 'kings' or warlords at that time. I appreciate the encouragement. for me it is a hobby I really enjoy, but if you are in the Argos or Peloponnese area let me know, happily meet up and discuss collab options! Email me if you want.
@@GreeceExplored Nice! I will check out the video. We were in Peloponnese a few months ago filming a road trip through the ancient city-states. The area was amazing. We might be back on our World Tour. Looking forward to keeping in touch.
Thanks bro
Glad it was useful!!
Its beautiful ❤
Thank you for watching my videos!
It looks wonderful to me, not very many British tourists, a definite plus!!
The Peloponnese is great, cheaper than the islands, more to do and as you say, far fewer tourists - especially Brits!
Good video
Really appreciated. Thank you.
Another great video. Looks like a fascinating day trip from Kalamata
Thanks, It is worth a visit, provided you know that in Sparta itself, the Spartans didn't really leave much. Mystras is Great though too.
THANKS, i ALWAYS WONDERED WHAT THE PLACE LOOKED LIKE.
Sparta was a unique civilisation...greek by all means. But very peculiar one even for the others Greek polis, especially Athens... At a historical scale Sparta was short lived... Not much writting remained ... Spartans cared so much less for building material & intelectual constructions../ they lived for battles only... Not much interest in procreation too... Two kings at the same time and gerusia as elders assembly... Very few inhabitans...not more than 10.000 ... Anyway for these features Sparta is still in our minds today!
I agree, Greece as a whole was pretty small, ancient Hellenic Greece. I used to have to study it at school as a kd and it was only once I lived here, in the Peloponnese I realised just how close everything I learnt about is. I assumed in my mind we were talking 100's of miles between places, not 10 or 20 km .... and the Spartans were pretty unique in that world too, and relatively short lived as you say, not enough of them to prosper.
youre a great narrator
That is very kind. Thank you
Ancient Sparta's remaining ruins were mostly disappeared since Michel Fourmont in turkish occupation did excavations there.
Yep, not a lot there, though Mystras is great.
Could you imagine being one of the 300 back then facing that army knowing you are going to die in that battle, just reminds me of brad pitts line in Troy as Achilles “that’s why no one will remember your name” they must have had just a real desire for glory to the death a willingness to take on anything and the confidence within themselves
Nice informative video ! What are those fruits hanging from trees ?
Oranges, they harvest them in the winter
The Spartans were very interested in philosophy and arts bit there aproch was different from that of the Athenians....the ruins aren't much because as like Elgin vandalized the Acropolis, Avas Fermont long before Elgin ....vandalized Sparta.
He tore everything from the ground up evey single rock was turned up side down and sold all over Europe.
Are those orange trees on the promenade?
They are, they look great don't they. There are huge numbers in the Peloponnese and quite common in the towns etc. The oranges are ready in January usually.
They are and the blossom makes everywhere smell amazing but they're not eating oranges as they are very bitter. Great for marmalade though.
My husband was from there...i have stayed in the city for three months...we also went to MYSTRAS and GYTHION...In Keadas cave they executed the condemned to death, the consuls, the traitors, the criminals and the prisoners of war, not the sick children...thats a myth...
Thank you, after all the time hard to be certain what is true, and what is propaganda!
Unfortunatelly there s not much to see or do in sparta... most of the ancient city is burried beneath the modern one, which is pretty uncharming and unindersting as well...
Mystras on the other hand is purely magnificent, one of the best and kind of overlooked greek medieval sites.. the village of mystras is really cute too!
I agree, though being Sparta, it has to be visited if you are also going to Mystras!
Is there an actual tomb on the site or just a bunch of rocks ?
it is a small temple, possibly a contemporary memorial, but not a tomb.
They found the location they believed was the mountain used for the sacrifices and when they looked at the bottom all they found was adult male bones no infant bones whatsoever. You should keep updated
I mayy update the video, redo this year, better camera, better knowledge etc!
I see all of this from the video game, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey set in Greece
I played it too, to be honest, Sparta was not really recognisable to me, or Corinth, but Epidavros, the building exist today
A you eat the oranges on those trees in downtown Sparta?
Many oranges are grown to eat in the Peloponnese, I mean millions!
@ thank you
I'm american but i love greece and sparta history
I agree I love it too as a Brit
Was it Visigoths or Vandals? Because those were two distinct and different groups of people.
Visigoths!!
Love from India. Would love to visit here soon
Glad you enjoyed and thank you for watching my videos!
Stay over there
The true Sparta looks alot nicer than the crappy one I grew up in here in Tennessee lol but seriously I think I would love to be able to get a chance to spend time in Greece and just travel around and see all these historical places and from pictures I've seen beaches look amazing. I'm curious what are those trees all over the place there that have the fruit on them I couldn't see too plainly what they were but that's definitely something you don't see around here
Depends on the time of year, there are a lot of orange trees, and olive trees in the Peloponnese, they are the main ones generally. I am glad you enjoyed my videos too!! thanks for watching and commenting
Yes the climate in Greece looks nice
It's full of shopping but you say don't shop there. It has several hotels but you say don't stay there, but you never say WHY! ??
Because there is not much there in reality, other than Mystras. I would stay in Kalamata and visit for a day
I can honestly say that I trained at Sparta
But that was at the football club in Rotterdam
Something good about being able to say you have been to Sparta!
I could see the parking situation is just like in the rest of Greece.
just for reference the disabled not being allowed to live there is mythology that was added hundreds of years later.
I wonder if the ghosts that roam those hills are tougher than normal ghosts...
Let us talk by the pit of death. 7:07
Michel Fourmond a French Catholic Priest. If it wasn't for him there would probably be a lot more to see from ancient Sparta. In 1729 after recieving a permit from the sultan to research and study any archaeological site within the Ottoman empire he started very secretly and delicately destroying piece by piece the archaeological sites he visited. Sparta was his fifth destination. In his memoires he was bragging about his achievements.
Thank yo for this information, I didn't know, but you are right, with the plague, independence war etc, most things have disappeared
@@GreeceExploredwhy you dont know, ? Is it forbidden jubject the archeological destruction of greece? Over greek temples were build churches also. Priest tried to destroy acropolis too and the british were exporting the art work? Have you ever heard of elgin?
@@GreeceExplorednot desapeard but exported or destroyed
@@GreeceExploredyou did the video of malta gigantia! Polygonal cyclopean,and not a comment that it is greek work ,, a greek island by name and origin
hey just head up minor correction it wasnt the thebians and athenians who defeated sparta it was the thebians and persians who defeated sparta who were allied with the athenians to try push them back
Thanks, always difficult to get everything right, especially when filming!
THIS IS SPARTA - Leondias (300) : 2007
There's probably a countless number of tourists who exclaimed that when first visiting the city.
Mystras is one of the best sites to see on the PELOPPONESE…if not in Greece. I stayed in Sparta 3 nights visited the Sparta Acropolis and the museum which is very small and quite modest. It’s not what this author suggests
Thank you for your input - Opinions are appreciated! and of value.
We should follow the Spartan example and protect the gene pool.
The great king.
Is a nice place to visit too, but need to know a little of the history
@@GreeceExplored would you like me to give you some history Brother Andrew as I am Alexandros a name of the 12 best of Leonidas royal Guard.
I am certain you know more than I do!!@@Alexsonofalion
@@GreeceExplored Do you know that there was an assassination attempt on Xerxes? Leonidas left his axe in his room
Are those Orange trees?
They are
Very nice video describing Sparta.
However you could've also mentioned the person that really eradicated Sparta's ancient monuments, Michel Fourmont. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Fourmont
You are right, I may revisit and update the video, now I know more, and have a better camera!, If I do I will include. Thanks.
How do I get here from Athen or Thessaloniki please?
Ktel bus from Athens, don’t go from Thessaloniki, it is about 900km!
Thank you much!! Also I love that you gave a brief history of Sparta. @GreeceExplored
For anyone with a love for history and Sparta if you’re willing to read get your eyes on The Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield you’ll love it I promise
It's a good read, like all of Pressfield's books, yet very americanised. Getting a grip on the actual battle is a hard task. For such a small engagement there's a lot to unpack as Herodotus' and Diodorus' accounts are deeply problematic. Many questions with few concrete answers - that's what we're left with.
I need to add that the archeological museum is not free. But it is very worth visiting. It’s a gem.
Thanks for the useful update!
What type of town is it in Sparta? Is there any form of military presence there or is it just a historical site now? I’m curious
It is really the town in location and name only, most of that which was historical has been built over or disappeared. The Spartans were not great builders, like say Athens.
@@GreeceExplored cool. I also wanted to ask was there really a temple of ares near sparta and if so are there still some parts of the temple still around?
@@OG420grandmaster I believe there were 3 temples to Ares, in the area, only one in Sparta itself, and no longer in existence. The Spartans worshipped Ares no more than the other gods, there were about 150 temples in total in the Spartan area, they were very pious.
@@GreeceExplored what is the predominant religion in Greece now? Are there any more religious beliefs on greek gods or just very little ?
@@OG420grandmaster They are Christian Greek Orthodox. There are no beliefs in Greek Gods now.
Been to Sparta 38? Times.
I love Sparta and Greek culture. I am an American though and I don't know how well Europeans fair to us.
My family wants to visit greece for just a few days on a budget. should i go to Sparta or athens?
100% Athens, I would not go to Sparta unless in the area.... Athens is not cheap, but can be done cheap. If you need to save on hotels, stay in Kifissia and get the metro the 30 mins in every day.