Sparta
is really Ancient Sparta, Sparti, Laconia
Real place, reimagined
Real-world photo: Wikimedia Commons
How close does the game get to the real place?
In the game
Kassandra's birthplace, a city of temples and houses spread through the green Evrotas valley, under the snowy Taygetos mountains.
The real place
Sparta was famous for its army, not its buildings, and little of the ancient city survives. The ruins of the acropolis and the theatre lie in an olive grove just north of the modern town of Sparti, with Mount Taygetos behind, as in the photo.
Visiting
The ancient site is free and open. Nearby Mystras, a Byzantine hill town, is one of the finest sites in the Peloponnese.
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