Church of Saints Theodore

Set in Laconia within the municipality of Sparta, the Church of Saints Theodore is a Byzantine church standing on ground steeped in far older history. Nearby lies the Kaiadas cave, a site the Spartans used from the archaic through Roman periods as a place of execution. Skeletal remains from antiquity have been recovered there, though their precise dating remains uncertain. The church thus sits at a crossroads of eras, where Byzantine devotion and the grim memories of classical and Roman Sparta meet in a single quiet landscape.