Olive groves on the gentler slopes. Poplars, willows and plane trees line the banks of the Evrotas. Gardens of every shade of green. And the series of villages continues. The succession of villages makes you want to wander and poke about them.
Every instant is different.
You need love and an adventurous spirit to walk this land. Going up the hill, you enter through the castle gate, which welcomes you to wander for a while, delighted, through the narrow lanes of this once invincible fortress. The castle of Mistras was built by the Franks in 1249 in their attempt to establish their supremacy over the Peloponnese. The Frankish prince Guillaume de Villehardouin erected the castle. He built bastions for his knights, houses, dungeons, storerooms, courtyards.