A Nafplio wine tour is a four to nine hour run into the Nemea valley, 40 minutes north-west of the town, tasting Agiorgitiko at two or three estates with a driver-guide, priced from 65 euros a head. Plan the rest of the trip with Greece Tours. This page covers the tour: what it costs, the … Read more
A Nafplio walking tour is a 90-minute to three-hour guided walk through the old town of the first capital of Greece, covering two to three kilometres from Syntagma Square to the Land Gate and the waterfront, priced from 20 euros a head. Plan the rest of the trip with Greece Tours. This page covers the … Read more
A Nafplio cooking class runs three to five hours in an old-town kitchen, on a smallholding out on the Argolid plain or in a beach kitchen at Karathona, cooking four to six dishes by hand with a local host and eating them at a long table with Nemea wine. Plan the rest of the trip … Read more
Yes, Nafplio is well worth visiting, and it is one of the most rewarding towns in Greece. As the first capital of the modern Greek state, it combines a remarkable depth of history with real beauty: three fortresses, a marble-paved old town of Venetian and neoclassical houses, museums, good beaches, fine food and wine, and … Read more
A food tour is one of the best ways to get to know Nafplio, tasting the flavours of the town and the Peloponnese while walking its beautiful old town. Over about three hours, a local guide leads a small group through the marble streets, stopping at traditional grocers, cellars and shops to sample local cheese, … Read more
Tolo is the beach resort of the Argolid, a lively seaside village on a long sandy bay about eleven kilometres south of Nafplio. Once a fishing village, it has grown into the region’s favourite resort while keeping a relaxed, family feel, with a kilometre of soft sand, calm shallow water sheltered by islets, watersports, boat … Read more
Karathona is the nearest sandy beach to Nafplio, a long horseshoe of soft golden sand in a sheltered bay only three kilometres south of the town. With shallow, calm, clear water reaching far from the shore, palm and eucalyptus trees along the coast road, and full facilities of cafes, sunbeds, showers and free parking, it … Read more
Arvanitia is the swimming cove of Nafplio, a small beach of white pebbles tucked beneath the great rocks of Acronafplia and Palamidi, only a ten-minute walk from the old town. Its clear, deep water and dramatic setting make it the town’s favourite place to swim, and the paved Arvanitia promenade that leads to it, carved … Read more
The Komboloi museum in Nafplio is the only museum in the world devoted to worry beads, the komboloi that Greeks traditionally handle to relax and pass the time. Set in a two-storey house on the taverna street of Staikopoulou in the old town, it holds a collection of hundreds of old worry beads and prayer … Read more
For a small town, Nafplio has a remarkable range of museums, from the great Archaeological Museum on Syntagma Square to the award-winning folklore collection, the unique worry-bead museum and the war museum in the old military school. Between them they cover the prehistoric and Mycenaean Argolid, the traditional life and costume of the Peloponnese, the … Read more