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Nafplion Promenade

Category: Promenades/Boardwalks
Location: Nafplion

Fodor's Review:

This promenade around the Nafplion peninsula is paved with reddish flagstones and graced with an occasional ornate lamppost. Here and there a flight of steps goes down to the rocky shore below. (Be careful if you go swimming here, because the rocks are covered with sea urchins, which look like purple-and-black porcupines and whose quills can inflict a painful wound.) Before you reach the very tip of the peninsula, marked by a ship's beacon, there is a little shrine at the foot of a path leading up toward the Acronafplia walls above. Little Virgin Mary, or Ayia Panagitsa (End of promenade), hugs the cliff on a small terrace and is decorated with icons. During the Turkish occupation it hid one of Greece's secret schools. Other terraces, like garden sanctuaries, have a few rosebushes and the shade of olive and cedar trees. Along the south side of the peninsula, the promenade runs midway along the cliff—it's 100 feet up to Acronafplia, 50 feet down to the sea. All along there are magnificent views of the cliff on which the Palamidi sits and the slope below, known as the Arvanitia.

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