Tiryns Fortress

Homer called it Tiryns of the great walls, and the walls are still the point. This Bronze Age citadel near the Argive coast is wrapped in masonry up to eight metres thick, with corbelled galleries running inside it, their stones polished smooth by centuries of sheltering sheep. Inside stood a Mycenaean palace with a frescoed hall and a throne room. Pausanias thought the walls as wonderful as the pyramids and complained that travellers ignored them, which is roughly still true.