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Unusual Attractions in Nafplio

Nafplio, Greece

Bourtzi

This 15th-century island fortress later served as home to the executioners no one wanted to live near.

Nafplio, Greece

Lion of Bavaria

This slumbering beast honors the Bavarian soldiers who died in Greece during a 19th-century typhoid outbreak.

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Church of Agios Spyridon

The historic building has preserved human organs, unusual hexagrams, and scars from a political assassination.

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Church of Agioi Pantes

A staircase made of gravestones leads up to this church built into a giant rock.

Nafplio, Greece

Vouleftikon (People's Assembly)

This 18th-century former mosque held the first Hellenic Parliament.

Nafplio, Greece

Basilica of Agios Nikolaos

This church is dedicated to the Patron Saint of Seafarers.

Nafplio, Greece

The Armansperg Residence

This building was once the most magnificent mansion in Nafplio.

Nafplio, Greece

Store for Unfinished Foreign Territory

This building served as the first customs house in modern Greece.

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