Peloponeso · Greece
In the destination Peloponeso.
In the photo: Bourtzi Castle, Náuplia
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The city
Náuplia (Nafplio) was the first capital of independent Greece, from 1827 to 1834, and is the most charming town in the Peloponnese: cobbled streets with Venetian and Ottoman balconies, praça Syntagma with the Museu Arqueológico, the Palamidi fortress atop the hill and the Bourtzi in the middle of the bay. It is about 2 hours from Athens and serves as a base for Micenas, Tirinto, Epidauro, Argos and Corinto, all less than an hour by car.
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The local experience
Venetian fortress built between 1711 and 1714 on top of a hill 216 metres above Náuplia, with eight bastions, the cell where the hero Kolokotronis was imprisoned and a staircase of hundreds of steps rising from the old town.
Small Venetian fortress on an islet in the middle of the port of Náuplia, begun in 1471, which has served as a prison, the executioner's house and a hotel. It is reached by boat from the pier.
Náuplia's oldest rocky promontory, with walls dating from Antiquity through the Venetians, three linked castles, the Porta de Terra and views over the old town and the praia de Arvanitia.
The main square of Náuplia's old town, surrounded by Venetian and Ottoman buildings, where the Archaeological Museum is housed in a former naval warehouse from 1713, containing the bronze panoply of Dendra and finds from the Franchthi cave.
Sanctuary of Asclepius, god of medicine, with Greece's best-preserved 4th-century BC theatre, famed for its acoustics and seating about 13,000 people, where an ancient drama festival usually takes place in summer.
The citadel of King Agamemnon of the Iliad: cyclopean walls, the Lion Gate from 1250 BC, the royal tombs where Schliemann found the gold mask and the Treasury of Atreus, with a museum on site.
Mycenaean citadel on a low hill 8 km from Náuplia, with cyclopean walls up to 17 meters thick and vaulted galleries, linked to the myth of Heracles. World Heritage Site with Micenas.
The commercial city of Antiquity that received the apostle Paul, with the seven columns of the Templo de Apolo from the 6th century BCE, the Roman forum, the Pirene fountain and a museum with mosaics and sculptures.
Rock 575 meters above Corinto Antiga, with one of the largest fortresses of the Peloponeso: three gates, 3 km of walls, the high spring of Pirene and, on the summit, the remains of the temple of Afrodite. View over the two gulfs.
A 6.3 km cut, 24 meters wide, opened between 1881 and 1893 on the isthmus of Corinto, with rock walls up to 90 meters high, seen from above at the national road bridge or at water level from the submersible bridges.
Sanctuary of Zeus where the Nemean Games were held, with the Temple of Zeus with re-erected columns, the stadium with a vaulted tunnel for the athletes' entrance, and a museum, in the middle of the Nemea wine region.
3rd-century BC theatre excavated into the slope of the Larissa hill in Argos, seating 20,000, next to the ancient agora and Roman baths, in a city inhabited for seven thousand years.
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