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
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
Syntagma Square is the grand marble-paved heart of Nafplio’s old town, the finest square in the Peloponnese and the natural first stop for almost every visitor. Ringed by the buildings of Greece’s first capital, from the Venetian barracks that hold the Archaeological Museum to the old Ottoman mosque known as the Trianon and, close by, … Read more
The old town of Nafplio is the most beautiful historic quarter in Greece, a maze of marble-paved streets, Venetian and neoclassical houses, and squares gathered beneath the fortresses on a headland by the sea. As the first capital of the modern Greek state, it holds the buildings where the young nation took shape, from the … Read more
Acronafplia is the oldest of Nafplio’s three castles, a long fortified ridge rising directly above the old town between Palamidi and the sea. Occupied since the Bronze Age and rebuilt by Greeks, Franks, Venetians and Ottomans, its walls carry the marks of every people who held the town. Lower and older than the great fortress … Read more
Nafplio is one of the most rewarding towns in Greece to stay in, and where you base yourself shapes the whole visit. Most visitors choose the marble-paved Old Town for its boutique guesthouses and unbeatable atmosphere, but the seafront, the New Town of Pronia, the heights of Acronafplia and the nearby coast at Tolo each … Read more