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Date: Wed 16 April
Time: 6pm for 6.30pm start
Venue: Greek Community Club
206-210 Lakemba Rd, Lakemba
Cost: Free entry
Bookings: 02 9750 0440
Language: Greek |
A presentation by Anastasia Anastasiadis
Summary in English by Alfred Vincent
Come with us to visit a living museum: Mistra, the last capital of the Byzantine Peloponnese, on its conical hill with a castle at the top and with brilliant churches, palaces and houses on the slopes below.
From 1380, as capital of a Despotate, it was ruled by members of the imperial family of the Palaiologoi; from 1443 to 1449 its Despot was Constantine, who became the last Emperor of Constantinople. Mistra was a great cultural centre, attracting famous artists and men of letters, such as the philosopher Georgios Gemistos, known as Plithon.
 
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