Old Town
The Old City of Nafplio was built at the feet of big rock and epexetathike with the neighborhoods around, they quickly grew and became a new urban form, in accordance with the residential development. The walk to the old stone houses, uphill in the narrow streets, filled the steps leading to more neighborhoods than efflorescent fragrant pots on doors and old stone fountains, compose the picture of aesthetic pleasure afforded by the authenticity of the Old City .
The road Polyzoidi Anastasiou, separates the old from New City.
The Old City has rymotomithei since the Kapodistrias, with design engineer Stamatis Voulgaris, while New unfolds until the intersection of two main entrances, Asklepios Avenue and Avenue Argos-Nafplio.
Browsing Old Town is a fascinating adventure, and a concentrated all-cultural attractions, from ancient and modern Greek history.
The tour can start from the famous Gate of the Land, built at the same time as the Palamidi, but if you like wandering, then the King Constantine, the «Big Way», is the starting point for the original discovery of Nafplio. It is the first road built with the classic standards in Greece, an initiative of John Capodistrias, who wanted the roads and towns with the same European standards.
At the beginning of the great road, where it currently meets the Statue of Otto, built the house and is known as «palace». Burned in 1929. The contribution of the «Grand Street» Terzakis the road, is the first Military School in Greece, while at the end of the Square, there is a great building, the Venetian arsenal, built in 1713. Since 1930, hosts the Archaeological Museum of Nafplion.
In the corner of roads and Sygrou Plapouta is home Armanspergk, the head of the Triumvirate of regent for Otto. Then meet the wonderful Court House, while the south is home Nikitara. Browser has an interesting visit to the Square of Three Navarhon (Kordikton, Derigny and Chefden). In the same area of the square is the monument of D. Ypsilanti and around the building of the first Greek school, built in 1833 and the first pharmacy. In the same area there is the building of the first Greek Academy, established in 1829.
With thousands of volumes, the Library has established the Cultural Association «Palamidi» onto Amalias. The road from the library leads to Syntagma Square, where many houses were the fighters of 1821. In the same region are preserved, the building of longer-serving Members who currently hosts the Conservatory, the Mosque, the Museum of Nafplion (former Venetian building) and Leonardou prisons. A visit to the Museum of the Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation in the Diocese of Nafplio, which was murdered by Kapodistrias Mavromichalis in 1831, and the Gallery, will fill with images admiration of every visitor.
The peridiavasi in the Old and New town of Nafplio, has the charm of the unexpected, unpredictable, but tied to a harmonious coexistence of past and present, leaving an increasingly promising future in this blend of beauty and harmony , which dominates the Deputy, on the one side as the other!

