Syntagma Square - Nafplio
Café-lined old-town square framed by a Venetian arsenal, a former mosque and the first parliament.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Syntagma Square in Nafplio is about a refugee widow from Asia Minor, Panorea Chatzikosta, and the nickname Greeks still throw at their own state. It takes you to a fundraising appeal under the old plane tree in eighteen twenty-six, and to a besieged town where food had run out. Best heard from a café table on the square, facing the old Venetian arsenal.
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