The Armata of Spetses: The Island’s September Naval Festival

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The Armata is the flagship annual festival of Spetses, a spectacular commemoration of the island’s naval victory over the Ottoman fleet on 8 September 1822. Every early September the town relives that triumph with a fiery reenactment in the Old Harbour, where a mock enemy flagship is burned on the water before a long fireworks … Read more