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Nafplio or Nauplia It is the first capital of modern Greece. It was the home of Palamidis, a local hero of the Trojan war and supposedly the inventor of weights and measures, lighthouses, the first Greek alphabet and the father of the Sophists. Because of the strength of the Palamidi Fortress that sits above the bay (857 steps up), the town of Nafplio became an important strategic and commercial center to the Byzantines from around the Sixth century AD. The Franks and the Venetians controlled the city for over 300 years and then it fell to Turkey in the late 1500’s. In 1821 Nafplio became the center of activity for the formation of the Modern Greek state and was its first capital.
Beautiful harbor
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