Phaistos Palace & Agia Triada Ticket with Smartphone Audio Guide

Explore Phaistos Palace and Agia Triada at your own pace with general entry to both sites and a smartphone audioguide.

Getting started

Head directly to the entrance of Phaistos Palace or Agia Triada, depending on where you choose to begin. Use your ticket for general entry to both sites and keep it handy as you move between them. Once inside the first site, open your smartphone audioguide and plug in your earphones so you can follow the commentary as you walk.

What to expect

Phaistos Palace

This is the second-largest Minoan palace after Knossos, preserved in a largely original excavated state above the Messara Plain. You can explore independently, using your smartphone audioguide to navigate the main courts, staircases, and inner apartments.

Features

• Your general entry to Phaistos Palace lets you move freely through key areas such as the grand West Court, the monumental staircase, and the vast Central Court at your own pace.
• The smartphone audioguide leads you through the royal apartments, storerooms, and archives, pointing out the exact spot where the famous Phaistos Disc was discovered.
• From the palace terraces, you can take in panoramic views over the fertile Messara Plain and toward the Libyan Sea as the commentary connects the landscape to the site.
• Listen to stories of legendary King Rhadamanthys and learn how masterpieces like the Harvester Vase and Boxer Rhyton were unearthed here and are now linked to this palace complex.

Agia Triada

Agia Triada is an elegant royal villa complex that complements your visit to Phaistos with a more compact but refined layout. You can visit it using the same overall ticket plan, continuing to rely on the smartphone audioguide for orientation and context.

Features

• With general entry to Agia Triada included, you can walk through its refined L-shaped layout, taking time in the halls, light-wells, workshops, and sea-view court.
• The smartphone audioguide explains how Agia Triada relates to nearby Phaistos and highlights details you might miss, such as functional spaces around the sea-view court.
• As you move through the ruins, you hear about finds like the Agia Triada sarcophagus and their connection to Minoan ritual and daily life at this royal villa.