Asine - a site only of convenience

Simply because this was on the way home (about 20 min from Nafplio) and it was lauded as a Level 4, we opted to try to find the site.  I had been unable to locate any ruins on Google maps, but had roughly triangulated the region, so off to Asine with the hope that we would find a sign.  ha.

By luck, we did see a blue "Anc. Asine" sign and started to follow the path.  We had to make several U-turns as not all the relevant signs are facing in the direction of opposing travel, but eventually, we found the sign without the arrow.  Of course, it was after 3:00pm, and we worried since we could see a ticket booth beyond the open gate what was going on.  The ticket booth was closed, but it appeared that the site was still available--we won't say "open" at this time, because we didn't figure that out until we found the other ticket booth much further into the site which said admission was "free" (which raises the questions of why have a ticket office, and if the site is open after 3:00pm, why have a gate?).

So, Asine is merely an assortment of "things" from 1200 B.C. to post-WWII.  Now, if you think I'm not interested in anything not Ancient Greek, then you should hear how aggressively not interested I am in anything about WWII.  It is one of my hard cutoff dates for war movies unless they are nommed for an Academy Award.  And since this site was now not only formerly Greek until it was demolished, and rebuilt, and then taken over by Romans and then Byzantines, but then Italians(!), there was precious little of any relevance for me to see.  A template layout of a lower town house, ascent to an acropolis with many ill-kempt cisterns and a couple of wine presses, and a lot of other
stuff.  And the site is not nearly so photogenic as the similarly irrelevant Acrocorinthos.

But here is a beautiful view of the ocean from atop the acropolis.