Fortress of Acronauplía
Hilltop citadel of Venetian walls and gates, once a prison, overlooking the old town and gulf.
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This guide to the Fortress of Acronauplia in Nafplio follows the men who were locked up on this hilltop for what they believed, from the Metaxas dictatorship of nineteen thirty-seven into the German occupation. It touches Greek party leaders behind the walls, a handover nobody refused, and an SS-run camp outside Athens in the spring of nineteen forty-four. Best heard at the edge of the hill, looking down over the gulf and the red roofs.
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