Vouleftiko - First Parliament of Greece
Domed eighteenth-century Ottoman mosque that housed the first Greek Parliament and a famous treason trial.
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This guide to the Vouleftiko in Nafplio starts with a contradiction: Greece's first parliament house was built as an Ottoman mosque, wrapped in a local legend of treasure and murder. It follows the building from the War of Independence to eighteen thirty-four, when a young Bavarian king's regents brought Theodoros Kolokotronis, the old general of the revolution, before a court here. Stand where you can see the dome.
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