Your Weekend in Ruins: The Road to Mycenae From Marathonas

On a seaside Attica plain, the clash of shields and spears has been replaced by haunting silence.

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The Lion Gate on the northwestern side of the citadel of Mycenae dates to the 13th century B.C. Anthony Grant/The New York Sun

MARATHONAS, Greece — Amid weird weather, war, and rising prices, Europe in the summer of 2023 is proving to be more popular than a fire sale at Filene’s Basement. (Remember those?) Hotels on the Continent are selling out and cheap airfares are elusive, but the tourist hordes keep coming

Yesterday’s battles, of course, furnish Instagram moments for the future. That is one thought, among many, that came to mind as I swerved my leased, somewhat automatic car into a parking lot 26 miles north of Athens — having been made to understand by a kind farmer I was driving in the wrong direction — and found myself staring at the Tumulus of the Marathon Warriors. 

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