Ancient Gortyna : The lost city of Arcadia

On the mountains of Arcadia in Peloponnesos/Peloponnese, near Stemnitsa and in the valley of Lousios river (the river where the fairies bathed baby Zeus), lies the ancient city of Gortyna. A lost city that was brought to light again by the archaeologists in the 1940s. According to Greek Mythology the city was founded by the…