Guardian: Sparta in top city breaks for 2013 according to Guardian
Sparta, Greece
EasyJet's (easyjet.com) Gatwick-Kalamata route launches in July and offers good access to Sparta, just an hour's drive away. There may not be much that resembles Zack Snyder's wild visions in the movie 300, but a series of excellent museums (odysseus.culture.gr) detail Sparta's fascinating history. Doubles at the Maniatis Hotel (maniatishotel.gr) in the modern city of Sparti cost from £73.