Frescoes in the Perivleptos Monastery of Mystras

The foundation for the city was laid in the 13th century with the construction of Mystras fortress on the Greek Peloponnese peninsula. The city experienced its great boom under Byzantine rule in the 14th and 15th centuries, when most of the cross-domed churches still worth seeing today were built and adorned with elaborate frescoes, such as those in the Perivleptos Monastery. This is just one of the preserved structures scattered across the entire hillside – the oldest church in Mystras, Mitropolis, the still-inhabited Pantanassa Monastery, the Evangelistria Church, and so on.