Promenade d’Arvanitia
Cliff-hugging seaside walkway beneath fortress walls, with gulf views and a chapel built into the rock.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Promenade d’Arvanitia in Nafplio follows the cliff path under Acronauplia through weather, stone and sea, beginning with a winter evening in twenty twenty-five and what one fisherman saw from a distance. It touches the geologists who studied this walkway, the prickly pear and wildflowers that colonise the slope, and a chapel the Venetians knew as Santa Maria della Grotta. Best heard walking slowly, with the water below you and the rock face at your shoulder.
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