According to mythology created by the Cyclopes. Originally belonged to Danao and later in the offspring of Hercules. The findings of the excavations indicate that inhabited in Neolithic times. The edge of the beginning but the Proto Age (2500 BC) to continue in Mycenaean, when the city became the citadel of monumental form. He continued to live there after the Dorian invasion, to the Geometric period, when created and settlement outside the citadel. The decline began after the development of Argos, from which it was destroyed in 468 BC about. The residents left the area and others moved to Argos and others in today’s Porto Heli. Reoccupied the Byzantine. Near the ruins of the ancient city is built the present village, 7 km N of Nafplio.
Shortly before Nafplio, the ruins of the Mycenaean citadel with cyclopean walls.
Currently kept at a low level, but in ancient times were much higher, so as mentioned by Pausanias, the construction given to recycling. When we look at the walls (the largest boulders weighing 13 tons), will enter the precincts of the citadel through a portal similar to the Lion Gate at Mycenae. There will be dominated by the famous syringes Tiryns, oblong ie underground walkways, especially useful in sieges. At the highest point of the citadel was the palace entrance,
courtyard and the great hall, from which only the foundations are distinguished, and found parts of wall paintings from the walls, indicating the wealth and opulence of the palace (findings from the area exposed to the Archaeological Museum of Nafplion and the National Archaeological Museum of Athens) . It is worth seeing even in the bath room, small hall, to the south and the west bastion and impressive staircase leading out of the citadel. In the modern village is the building of the first agricultural school founded by Kapodistrias 1830.
Tags: ancient greece, Archaeological Museum, Nafplio, Tiryns