Mycenaean Tombs, Tzanata

Excavated in the early 1990s by Lazaros Kolonas, these are the largest vaulted Mycenaean tombs in the area of the Ionian Islands, with a height of 3.95 metres and a diameter of 6.8 metres. There is evidence that this tomb was built on another, smaller tomb as the stone used in the earlier tomb had been incorporated into this one.

The tombs had been ransacked previously and the domed chamber smashed. The objects found there – jewellery, figurines, gold – not only suggest that the tombs were for the wealthy but also that the area was a flourishing Mycenaean centre around 1350 BC.