Nafplio Full day tour
Visit the coastal city of Nafplio, the first capital of Greece
Enjoy a visit to the small island of Bourtzi Castle
Views of the pretty countryside of Argolis
UNESCO-listed site of Mycenae
Visit the classical site of Epidaurus
Nafplio Full day tour description
Drive through and admire the wide view of the region along with the endless beauty of the Argolic Gulf from the top of the hill. Experience the old capital of Greece (Nafplio) before Athens and its architecture. Visit the main attractions like Bourtzi Castle and Palamidi castle as well as the various picturesque squares in the city center. Observe the colorful venetian houses that attract your eyes with the bougainvilleas hanging flashily from the balconies.
Travel into history by visiting the ancient theater of Epidaurus. In the antiquity, Epidaurus was a sanatorium, connected intensively with the Asclepeion healing temples. Nowadays, Epidaurus is most known as the theater with the greatest acoustic of all times and still hosts the Festival of Epidaurus every summer.
Furthermore, Mycenae is located about 120 kilometres (70 miles) southwest of Athens, in the north-eastern Peloponnese. From the hill on which the palace was located, one can see across the Argolid to the Saronic Gulf. Mycenae was one of the major centres of Greek civilization, a military stronghold which dominated much of southern Greece and parts of southwest Anatolia in the second millennium BC.
Tour Program | 8 – 9 hours duration
- Mycenae
- Ancient theater of Epidaurus
- Palamidi Castle
- Bourtzi Castle
- Rebuilt town gate of Nafplio, the «Pili of Xiras»
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Experience Argolis
A fertile land of orange orchards, kitchen gardens and olive groves, encircled by mountains and washed by the sea, Argolida (ancient Argolis) is further blessed with a mild climate all year round. These ideal geographical and climatic conditions had attracted humans to the region since as early as prehistoric times and facilitated the emergence of the remarkable Mycenaean civilization that flourished from 1600 to 1000 BC. Its decline has been associated with the invasion of Doric tribes from the north, who were followed many centuries afterward by the Romans and later by Venetians, Franks and Ottoman Turks. When the modern Greek state was founded Nafplio, the prefecture’s capital, was made the seat of government.
