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harming chiefly due to its elegant, 17th century Venetian and neoclassical-style architecture, bougainvillea-framed, labyrinthine lanes and scenic seafront position, Nafplio is a popular tourist destination year-round that never becomes oppressively busy.
The capital of the Peloponnese during the 16th and 17th centuries and, at the culmination of Greece’s War of Independence, briefly the capital of the nation – a political standing that is attested to by a beautiful equestrian statue in tribute to the revolution’s commander-in-chief Theodoros Kolokotronis – this appealing city stands on the slope of a peninsula that protrudes into the Argolic Gulf.