Taking off again today on a further cultural quest we head for the 13th century BC Nestors Palace. This is famous for the discovery of the Linear B tablets which was the first physical evidence of the written Greek language.
Mostly only the ground floor footings remain
.
There is evidence of a hip bath.
The local museum at Chora has an amazing display of the finds from this Palace. Huge quantities of crockery from the pantry
And some wonderful pieces of the wall paintings as well as numerous burial finds fro the local area. The Palace is in a perfect setting between coast and mountain as in Mycenae.
After visiting the museum at Chora we head back to the coast to visit Nestors cave and its lagoon setting.
First of all we head up the coast path to the headland to the Palaiokastro which is a Franco Venetian castle in ruins
. The walls are so fragile that they have closed it to visitors. On reaching the gateway we had to agree it was foolhardy to continue through the arch so turned back.
The headland is full of snakes so we were glad we had put on our walking boots.
From the base of the hill we skirted the Voidokoilia Lagoon
up to the dunes and climbed up to the entrance of Nestors cave. It is supposedly, according to Homer, where Nestors father Neleus kept his cows. Good luck to him, he must have been fit.
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