Palamidi Fortress
Hilltop Venetian fortress of eight bastions, reached by a long stone stair and later used as a prison.
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About this audio guide
This audio guide to Palamidi Fortress in Nafplio is about the people who did the heavy lifting on its famous staircase, from the Venetian engineers of the early seventeen hundreds to the convicts of the young Greek kingdom. It touches the bastions that served as cells and a revolutionary general who ended up behind them. Best heard on the stairs themselves, mid-climb, keeping your own count.
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