Syntagma Square
Syntagma Square features on the Gingerguide audio walk through Nafplio. Give it roughly ~30 min: enough to look, hear a two to three minute story on the spot, and ask the AI guide whatever the story leaves open.
- Type square
- Suggested visit ~30 min
- Nafplio Nafplio guide
About 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.
Syntagma Square is the marble-paved centre of Nafplio's old town and its main gathering place. Once called Plane-tree Square after a large plane tree, it was renamed Syntagma, meaning constitution, after the movement of September 1843 that demanded one, echoing the square of the same name in Athens. On its west side stands a Venetian naval arsenal of 1713, now the Archaeological Museum of Nafplio, home to the Dendra panoply, an almost complete suit of Mycenaean bronze armour.
The square is flanked by the Vouleftiko, a former Ottoman mosque that housed the first Hellenic Parliament in the 1820s, and by the Trianon, the town's oldest surviving mosque, which has also served as a church, school, theatre and cinema. Once ringed by the houses of Revolution leaders such as Kolokotronis and Nikitaras, it was reshaped into its present marble form in 1980. Nafplio was the first capital of the modern Greek state.
Did you know? The square's Archaeological Museum holds the Dendra panoply, an almost complete suit of Mycenaean bronze armour from about the late fifteenth century BC, one of the oldest complete suits of armour known in Europe.
How long is a visit to Syntagma Square?
Set aside roughly ~30 min for Syntagma Square. That covers a good look and the narrated story, and because you set the pace you can always stay on.
Is Syntagma Square worth your time?
Syntagma Square is among the 15 narrated highlights the Gingerguide team chose for Nafplio, so it is worth a look. Hear the story for the context, then ask the AI guide for anything more.
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