Church of Panagia
Three-aisled Venetian-era basilica beside an olive tree tied to the martyrdom of the town's patron saint.
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This guide to the Church of Panagia in Nafplio follows Anastasios, a local painter in the sixteen fifties, from a broken engagement and a family's whispered sorcery into the streets of an Ottoman-ruled town. It touches the Venetians who rebuilt the church, a cholera outbreak in the early twentieth century, and why the whole town still stops work every first of February. Best heard standing on the church's north side, by the olive tree.
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