Tiryns

Tiryns is a Mycenaean acropolis four kilometres north of Nafplio on the road to Argos. It is much smaller and less spectacular than Mycenae, but it has the most impressive surviving cyclopean walls anywhere in Greece — courses of unworked limestone blocks so massive they look prehistoric even now.

The site became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999 (jointly with Mycenae). The highlight is the corbelled gallery on the south side of the acropolis, a tunnel of cyclopean stone built into the wall thickness with no mortar at all. The site is small — an hour is enough — and quiet compared to Mycenae. The Nafplio–Argos buses stop on the highway opposite the entrance.

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A story
Homer called Tiryns "the wall-girt city" and the walls are still its point. The blocks of the cyclopean walls weigh up to fourteen tonnes each; classical Greek writers believed they could only have been built by the giant Cyclopes. The site is also the mythological home of Heracles, who was said to have performed his Twelve Labours from here.