Peloponnese
Argolis
Argos-Mykines

Mycenae

Mycenae is a town in the , . It's home to the ancient Acropolis of Mycenae, listed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. It is one of Greece's most renowned archaeological sites, dating to the 2nd millennium BC.
Tap on a place
to explore it
Wikivoyage
Wikipedia
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Photo: Andy Hay, CC BY 2.0.
  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: ancient city, now an archaeological site in Argolis, Greece
  • Also known as: “archaeological site of Mycenae”, “Mukenai”, “Mycena”, “Mycenæ”, “Mykenai”, and “The Citadel of Mycenae”
  • Address: Μυκήνες
Photo: David.Monniaux, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tomb of Agamemnon and Lion Gate.

Archaeological site
Photo: Ken Russell Salvador, CC BY 2.0.
The Treasury of Atreus or is a large tholos or beehive tomb constructed between 1300 and 1250 BCE in Mycenae, . It is the largest and most elaborate tholos tomb known to have been constructed in the Aegean Bronze Age, and one of the last to have been built in the Argolid.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The is the popular modern name for the main entrance of the Bronze Age citadel of Mycenae in Southern Greece. It was erected during the thirteenth century BC, around 1250 BC, in the northwestern side of the acropolis.

Museum
Photo: Zde, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mykines and Monastiraki.

Village
Photo: Aleksasfi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a village.

Village
is a village in prefecture, built on the foot of mount Evia, between two low hills. It is located adjacent to ancient Mycenae and the , with a view of the entire Argolic plain.

Mycenae

Latitude
37.7292° or 37° 43′ 45″ north
Longitude
22.7566° or 22° 45′ 24″ east
Elevation
245 metres (804 feet)
Open location code
8G94PQH4+MJ
Open­Street­Map ID
way 30109566
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
257058
Wiki­data ID
Q132564
This page is based on OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikivoyage.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.

Satellite Map

Discover Mycenae from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
© Stadia Maps, Airbus DS, CNES, PlanetObserver, and Copernicus

In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Mycenae” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Micene”
  • Albanian: “Micena”
  • Albanian: “Mikena”
  • Albanian: “Mycenae”
  • Albanian: “Mykena”
  • Albanian: “Mykenai”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Μυκῆναι”
  • Arabic: “موكناي”
  • Armenian: “Միկեններ”
  • Asturian: “Micenes”
  • Azerbaijani: “Mikena”
  • Banjar: “Mykenai”
  • Basque: “Mizenas”
  • Belarusian: “Горад Мікены”
  • Belarusian: “Мікены”
  • Breton: “Mikenai”
  • Breton: “Mikene”
  • Breton: “Mikenea”
  • Breton: “Mykenai”
  • Bulgarian: “Микена”
  • Catalan: “Micenes”
  • Cebuano: “Mycenae”
  • Chinese: “迈锡尼”
  • Chinese: “迈锡尼城”
  • Chinese: “邁錫尼”
  • Chinese: “麥錫尼”
  • Croatian: “Mikena”
  • Croatian: “Mykene”
  • Czech: “Mykény”
  • Danish: “Mykene”
  • Dutch: “Mycene”
  • Dutch: “Mykenai”
  • Dutch: “Mykene”
  • Dutch: “Mýkines”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مايسينى”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “موكناى”
  • Esperanto: “Miceno”
  • Esperanto: “Mikeneo”
  • Esperanto: “Mikeno”
  • Estonian: “Mükeene”
  • Finnish: “Mykene”
  • French: “Mekin”
  • French: “Mycenes”
  • French: “Mycènes”
  • French: “Mykene”
  • French: “Porte des Lionnes”
  • Galician: “Micenas”
  • Georgian: “მიკენა”
  • Georgian: “მიკენე”
  • Georgian: “მიკენი”
  • German: “Mekan”
  • German: “Mekin”
  • German: “Mukana”
  • German: “Mukanu”
  • German: “Mukinu”
  • German: “Mykenä”
  • German: “Mykenae”
  • German: “Mykenai”
  • German: “Mykene”
  • Greek: “Mikínai”
  • Greek: “Mykínes”
  • Greek: “Αρχαιολογικός χώρος Μυκηνών”
  • Greek: “Μυκήναι” (historical)
  • Greek: “Μυκήνες”
  • Greek: “Μυκήνη” (historical)
  • Hebrew: “מיקנה”
  • Hebrew: “מיקני”
  • Hindi: “मैसीन”
  • Hungarian: “Mükéné”
  • Icelandic: “Mýkena”
  • Ido: “Mikeno”
  • Indonesian: “Mikenai”
  • Indonesian: “Mikene”
  • Indonesian: “Mycenean”
  • Indonesian: “Mykenai”
  • Interlingua: “Mycenas”
  • Interlingua: “Mycene”
  • Irish: “Micéanae”
  • Irish: “Micéiné”
  • Italian: “antica Micene”
  • Italian: “Micene”
  • Italian: “Micenea”
  • Italian: “Mycenae”
  • Italian: “sito archeologico di Micene”
  • Japanese: “ミケーナイ”
  • Japanese: “ミケーネ”
  • Japanese: “ミュケーナイ”
  • Japanese: “ミュケナイ”
  • Kazakh: “Mïken”
  • Kazakh: “Микен”
  • Kazakh: “مىيكەن”
  • Kirghiz: “Микены”
  • Korean: “뮈케나이”
  • Korean: “미케네”
  • Kurdish: “Mîkên”
  • Latin: “Mycenae”
  • Latvian: “Mikēnas”
  • Lithuanian: “Mikėnai”
  • Low German: “Mykenä”
  • Low German: “Mykenai”
  • Low German: “Mykene”
  • Luxembourgish: “Mykene”
  • Macedonian: “Микена”
  • Malay: “Mykenai”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mykenai”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mykene”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mykene”
  • Norwegian: “Mykene”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Micenas”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Micenes”
  • Persian: “موکنای”
  • Polish: “Mykenai”
  • Polish: “Mykeny”
  • Portuguese: “Micenas”
  • Portuguese: “Micênica”
  • Portuguese: “Rei de Micenas”
  • Pushto: “مايسيني”
  • Romanian: “Micene”
  • Russian: “Микене”
  • Russian: “Микены”
  • Rusyn: “Микены”
  • Sardinian: “Micene”
  • Serbian: “Mikena”
  • Serbian: “Микена”
  • Serbian: “Микенци”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mikena”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mikenci”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Микена”
  • Slovak: “Mykény”
  • Slovenian: “Mikene”
  • Spanish: “‘La rica en oro’”
  • Spanish: “Micenas”
  • Swedish: “Mykenae”
  • Swedish: “Mykenai”
  • Swedish: “Mykene”
  • Swiss German: “Mykene”
  • Tagalog: “Mycenae”
  • Tatar: “Микены борынгы кала археологик урыны”
  • Thai: “ไมซีนี”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Mykene”
  • Turkish: “Miken”
  • Turkish: “Mycenae”
  • Turkish: “Mycenæ”
  • Ukrainian: “Мікени”
  • Urdu: “موکنائی”
  • Uzbek: “Miken”
  • Uzbek: “Mikeni”
  • Vietnamese: “Mycenae”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mycenae, Gresya”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mycenae”
  • Welsh: “Mycenae”
  • Welsh: “Mycenaeaid”
  • Western Armenian: “Միկինես”
  • Western Frisian: “Mysene”
  • Wu Chinese: “迈锡尼”
  • Yue Chinese: “邁錫尼”
  • “𐀘𐀏𐀙𐀂”

Places with the Same Name

Discover other places named “Mycenae”.

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Fichti and Εκκλησιαστικά.

Argolis: Must-Visit Destinations

Delve into Argos, Nafplio, Ermioni, and Tolo.

Explore These Curated Destinations

Discover places selected for their distinct character and enduring appeal.
About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Mycenae”. Photo: Andy Hay, CC BY 2.0.