Palamidi Peloponnese

Woke up early to catch the Thunder game and was rewarded! I don't want to whine (considering where I'm at) but being gone during playoffs is just not a good thing. So I pulled out my Thunder wear and off we went to climb the stairs to the Palamidi fortress. The views were incredibly beautiful! After lunch we headed to the beach for a little siesta …

... the beach we had to stop to let a goat herder and his flock cross. All of it added to the ambiance of being in the Peloponnese. After getting back into town we decided to check out the local grocery store for odds and ends to keep in the room. We got ...

... -deprived senses as we snaked through mountainous countryside - peppered for miles with groves of ancient, gnarled olive trees. The Peloponnese, a large lump of land hanging off the southern tip of the Greek mainland, was the birthplace of the ...

... up. The place is massive and was built by the Venetians between 1711 and 1714. Unfortunately, the Turks conquered the Palamidi only a year later in 1715. Maybe they attacked during afternoon naptime or something because the fortress looks pretty ...

... lived on the island castle until 1930. He was not a very popular man. The castle on the hill is called the Palamidi fortress. It consists of seven bastions (small castles within themselves) that are connected by walls. Each bastion was individually ...

... to sing and the sound was fantastic.   Nafplio has a number of forts around it. We visited the large fort called Palamidi Fortress, the smaller one is Akronafplia and the one in the harbour is Bourtzi fort.   The Palamidi was an exhausting ...

... places to go, people to see so we will be departing tomorrow.  Up on the hill behind the town is the Castle of Palamidi. Nestled on the crest of a 216-metre high hill, the fortress was built by the Venetians during their second ...

Nafplio (or Naplion, Nafplion, etc- it's spelled many different ways) is a cute town in the Peloponnese. It was the original capital of Greece, before it became Athens. It’s a port town on the water, with its top sights being the three fortresses ...

10/17/2005 Palamidi Here we visited a castle and fortress from the 1700s. This has been occupied by the Venetians, Ottomans, Francs, and the Greeks. The entire thing was built in three years, but defeated in eight days. There are seven bastions or ...

... and produced a birthday cake for us all to have a slice off. We then began the long, sweaty walk up to the Palamidi Fortress which stands on a 216m high outcrop. The number of steps up to the entrance of the fortress is open to conjecture but ...

From Mycenae we head to the port city Nafplio.  We took a tour of Palamidi, a military fortress that was used as a prison during the Greek War of Independence. After the war, Nafplio was the first modern capitol of Greece (and then Athens took over ...