Nafplio in 2 days, on foot

This 2-day self-guided walking plan for Nafplio covers 15 narrated sights in an easy day-by-day order. Each day is split into a morning and an afternoon loop, and every stop has a two to three minute audio story in the Gingerguide app.

You set the pace: this is a suggested order, not a schedule. Walk it in 2 days, or stretch it out. Reorder freely; Nafplio rewards a detour.

The Nafplio route at a glance

Day 1

Day 1 covers 8 stops over about 1.7 km as the crow flies, from Nafplio Old Town to Arvanitia Promenade. ≈ 1.7 km between stops, straight line

Morning

1. Nafplio Old Town: A compact quarter of narrow streets and small squares between two fortresses, layered with Venetian and Ottoman marks, at the heart of Greece's first modern capital. 0.6 km to the next stop
2. Palamidi Fortress: A vast Venetian fortress of eight bastions crowning a 216-metre hill above Nafplio, reached by a famous staircase and once the prison of Kolokotronis. 0.5 km to the next stop
3. Church of Agios Spyridon: A modest domed Orthodox church of 1702, best known as the doorway where Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first head of state of independent Greece, was assassinated in 1831. 0.1 km to the next stop
4. Vouleftiko (First Greek Parliament): A broad-domed former Ottoman mosque on Syntagma Square that became the seat of newly free Greece's first parliament in 1825, and a courtroom for a famous treason trial in 1834. 0 km to the next stop

Afternoon

1. Syntagma Square: The marble-paved heart of Nafplio's old town, ringed by a Venetian arsenal, two former mosques and the houses of Revolution heroes, in Greece's first modern capital. 0.1 km to the next stop
2. Archaeological Museum of Nafplio: A grand Venetian naval warehouse of 1713, now the Argolid's archaeological museum, home to the Dendra bronze panoply, the near-complete Mycenaean war-suit that recently survived an eleven-hour mock battle. 0.2 km to the next stop
3. Acronauplia: The ancient acropolis of Nafplio and its oldest fortress, its walls layered by Greeks, Byzantines, Franks, Venetians and Ottomans, high above the old town. 0.3 km to the next stop
4. Arvanitia Promenade: A paved seaside path cut into the rock around Acronauplia's foot, with open Argolic Gulf views and sight lines to all three of Nafplio's castles.

Day 2

Day 2 covers 7 stops over about 51 km as the crow flies, from Bourtzi to Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus. ≈ 51 km between stops, straight line

Morning

1. Bourtzi: A small Venetian sea-fort on an islet in Nafplio's harbour, once anchor of the great harbour chain, later home to the town's executioners and a hotel. 18 km to the next stop
2. Treasury of Atreus: A Mycenaean beehive tomb whose corbelled stone dome was the tallest and widest in the world for over a thousand years, until Rome built the Pantheon. 0.8 km to the next stop
3. Archaeological Museum of Mycenae: The on-site museum for Mycenae's finds, from pottery and jewellery to the gold death masks, though the famous 'Mask of Agamemnon' here is a replica of the Athens original. 0.1 km to the next stop
4. Lion Gate of Mycenae: The monumental main entrance to Mycenae's citadel, crowned by two confronted lions in relief, the only piece of monumental sculpture to survive from the entire Mycenaean world. 0 km to the next stop

Afternoon

1. Citadel of Mycenae: The Bronze Age fortress that gave the Mycenaean civilization its name: Cyclopean walls, the gold-filled shaft graves of Grave Circle A, and a secret stairway to underground water. 32 km to the next stop
2. Sanctuary of Asklepios at Epidaurus: The ancient world's most famous healing sanctuary, where the sick slept to be cured in dreams by the god Asklepios; a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1988. 0.5 km to the next stop
3. Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus: A 4th-century-BC theatre at the sanctuary of Asklepios, famous for acoustics that carry a coin's fall to the back of some fourteen thousand stone seats, and still staging ancient drama.

Distances are straight-line between stops; streets add a little.

Updated: September 14, 2026

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