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Phaistos
Phaistos is a Bronze Age archaeological site on a hill in south-central Crete, dominated by the remains of a multi-level Minoan palace and its surrounding town. The palace complex contained a large central courtyard, theatre terraces, storage magazines, ceremonial halls and residential quarters and was one of the principal urban centres of Minoan Crete.
First raised
3000 BC
Its prime
1600 BC
Today
Ruin
As it stood in 1600 BC
What Phaistos looked like in its prime.
A broad, low, multi-level stone complex of pale ashlar blocks and rubble masonry terraces spread across a rounded hilltop; a wide rectangular central courtyard sits at the heart, ringed by colonnaded porticoes, doorways and staircases that rise to balconies and upper ceremonial rooms. A stepped theatre of tiered stone seating cuts into the slope. Interior floors and selected chambers are lined with pale gypsum and alabaster panels; the whole site is set above olive-studded fields with a distant mountain backdrop.
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9 places to explore in 1600 BC.
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