Paralia Arvanitias
Organized town beach beneath sheer cliffs and fortress walls, linked to the harbour by a seaside path.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Arvanitia, the town beach of Nafplio, starts with the story locals tell about its name: an Ottoman admiral, Gazi Hassan Pasha, and the Albanian mercenaries who held the Peloponnese in fear through the seventeen-seventies. It weighs that tale against the history books and against a much older community that lived just outside the walls. Best heard from the water, looking back up at the cliffs.
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