Lion of the Bavarians
Dying lion carved into living rock in memory of Bavarian soldiers lost to an epidemic.
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This guide to the Lion of the Bavarians in Nafplio goes back to the years when the town was the capital of newly independent Greece and a Bavarian prince named Otto arrived to be its king, with his own soldiers in tow. It follows the men of that escort, the father in Bavaria who paid for their memorial, and the sculptor Christian Siegel. Stand in the small park facing the rock face, where you can see the whole niche at once.
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