Magoula (Greek: Μαγούλα) is a district of modern Sparta city in Laconia, Greece. It is the former seat of the Mystras municipality. It is basically the evolution of a small village that has been attached to the growing Sparta city. It is an aristocratic area and the centre of the ancient city of Sparta.


The name Magoula is a diminutive of the Greek word "maghos" (μάγος) meaning "small". The area was named after the small river that runs through it. It has been known as such since at least 1590, when it appeared in an Ottoman defter of Laconia. In 1834, British traveller William Martin Leake recorded its name as Mavoulla and described it as a village with 300 houses and 700 inhabitants.

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