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Mistras (Prefecture of Lakonia)

Telephone: +30 2731083377, 2731025363
Fax: +30 2731083377, 2731025363

Visit the archaeological site web site

 
 
Tickets
Full: €20, Reduced: €10
Visitors entitled to reduced ticket or free pass are defined in Government Gazette 1968/Β΄/29.3.2024. Electronic POS (POS) at the Lower and the Upper Gate of the archaeological site
Special ticket package: Full: €20, Reduced: €10
Free admission days
6 March (in memory of Melina Mercouri)
18 April (International Monuments Day)
18 May (International Museums Day)
The last weekend of September annually (European Heritage Days)
28 October
 
  Open

Winter:
01/11-31/03: 08:30-15:30

Summer:
01/04-31/08: 08:00-20:00
01-15/09: 08:00-19:30
16-30/09: 08:00-19:00
01-15/10: 08:00-18:30
16-31/10: 08:00-18:00

During the venue’s summer opening hours, the Palace of the Despots will be open to visitors from 11.00 onwards on the second day of the week (Tuesday).

Holidays
1 January
25 March
1 May
Easter Sunday
25 December
26 December
 
  Amenities for the physically challenged
People with disabilities may only access the Palace of the Despots using a specially adapted passenger vehicle, during working days and hours (Monday–Friday, 08:00 – 15:00), subject to prior arrangement with EFALAK [email: efalak@culture.gr, Tel.: 27310 25363 (EFALAK offices)/27310 83377 (Mystras archaeological site)]
 
  Shop
There are two ticket offices: one near the main entrance to the archaeological site and one at the Palace of the Despots, both with the same opening hours.
 
  Suggestive Bibliography
G. Millet, Monuments byzantins de Mistra, Paris 1910
Σπ. Λάμπρος, Παλαιολόγεια και Πελοποννησιακά 1912-1934
Μ. Χατζηδάκης, Μυστράς, Βιβλία Τέχνης, Αθήνα 1956
 
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See also
Other museums and archaeological sites in the same prefecture
Acropolis of Sparta
Amyklaion and Sanctuary of Apollo Amyklaios
Archaeological Museum of Mystras
Archaeological Museum of Sparta
Archaeological site of Geraki castle
Archaeological site of Geraki castle
Archaeological Site of Gytheion (Agora)
Archaeological site of Monemvasia Castle
Archaeological Site of Pellana
Cave of Alepotrypa