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Bourtzi

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

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Church of Agios Spyridon

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

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 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.

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Tholos Tomb of Tiryns

Step inside an ancient beehive tomb built for a mysterious cult hero.

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Komboloi Museum (Greek Worry Bead Museum)

The secular incarnation of a religious meditation.

2 miles from Nafplio

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