24 Hours in Nafplio, Greece | Greece Travel
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- Over the weekend, I took the KTEL bus from Athens to Nafplio, Greece to spend the weekend there. If you love fortresses/castles, Nafplio is for you! The town is also very beautiful with stunning views. Nafplio is also a great day trip from Athens as the bus goes frequently and if you have rented a car, the drive is easy.
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Bourtzi - discovernafplio.gr/en/article...
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My lovely home town ! Nafplio was the first capital of Greece and whichever direction you look their is beauty and history. The first high school is the town hall building today . The first Pharmacy the first customs building the first syntagma square and the statue of Kolokotronis in the park is the same as the one they have in Athens created by the same person. The national art museum is interesting to visit in gorgeous neoclassical building. Places of interest 30min away is the ancient theatre of Epidauros which has plays every summer on the weekends . 20min away is the ancient city of Mycenae where king Agamemnons grave is. Dates back to 1500BC
Thanks for sharing!! I knew some of this but not all of.
Actually the first capital was Aegina,1827 Aegina was officially designated as the -temporary- first capital of the newly formed Greek state, a status it maintained until 1829 because nafplio wasn't safe in that time. In Nafplio killed the first governor of Greece ioannis kapodistrias.
Nafplio it was first capital no Aegina
Stayed in Nafplio last spring with my family and we loved it. If you follow the coastal path in the opposite direction (by the way the most beautiful path you can imagine), you will find Karathona beach after about 2 miles. It's a giant crescent-shaped sandy beach with stunning views of the surrounding peaks. The first beach restaurant with loungers is called "Utopia", which is a most apt description of the place. Highly recommend. You could of course take a taxi instead of the path, but getting there along the walking path is more than half the fun!
It’s a beautiful city! Glad you enjoyed it.
One of my favorite spots to visit in Greece and the town where my son was baptized in 1991! Especially enjoyed the waterside cafes for breakfast and visiting the castle.
I can see why! It’s a great place.
NAFPLIO: BIOGRAPHY OF A GREEK TOWN by Matt Stanley is a great book all about the history and buildings of Nafplio - ideal if you love the place or are planning a visit.
It was so interesting watching this after I spent 10 wonderful days in September there. It looks like I have more to see. People said I would get bored and I didn't. My friend and I packed our days with things to see, and for a day or two we just chilled.
The beach at the end of the coastal walk which we did almost every day does actually have a rocky beach you can lie on, Arvanitia Beach. We liked it but you do need your rock shoes, and it's not strictly a jump off the rocks kind of beach. You can lie there, swim from the beach, and jump off the rocks if you want. As for Palamidi Castle, I wish I had more time there. I did the same with the cab, and I found the cab ride at 30 euros steep, my friend and I shared. When the cab waits for you, you can't really take your time and explore. We did walk up to the other fortress and explored and saw the abandoned hotels, which is too bad that they are. The sailing cruise is amazing, make sure you do that one day!
It’s all in what you make of it right! I am not a fan of rock beaches but it was so hot that I was regretting not bringing my swimsuit!
I love Nafplion; it's been many years since I last visited. It's already on my list for my trip to Greece this summer (along with the islands of Naxos and Hydra). Thanks for the video!
You’re welcome. Your trip sounds great!
I am a Greek American and I have really enjoyed your coverage of Athens and all of Greece.I have really learned from you.The pros and cons of living in Greece.WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ISLAND OR YOUR FAVORITE PLACE IN GREECE, YOU HAVE AS OF NOW??
The coast road is still technically closed, but everyone just walks around the gates. One of the best ways to get up to Palimidi is to get the hop on hop off bus tour. You can then spend 2-3 hours at Palimidi if you want. It is 8 euro as far as I remember, and you get a nice little tour of Nafplio with a commentary as well.
Wow! Thank you for sharing! Beautiful!!!
You’re welcome!
Looks tranquil and beutifull ,a great explore ,your guidance on the history is appreciated,enjoyed this video and look forward to more.thanks ,stay safe.
I love your videos - I definitely have to plan a Greece trip soon. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you!!
/Pedant mode on/ For those confused by the spelling of Nafplio, in Greek it's Nauplio (Ναυπλιο) with an upsilon υ
The upsilon became the latin V which in turn gave the modern letters U and V because it had the two pronunciations depending on the following letter. In this case it's the V pronunciation : Navplio therfore Nafplio. Also all the ancient Greek polis had a fortress called the Acropolis. Acron meaning extremity. In the case of Nauplio the acropolis is called Acronauplio. /End of pedant mode/
I’m 61st watching from Montréal Quebec Canada enjoying your videos of your daily life from Athens Greece ☀️✈️🍻
Thank you so much!!
So beautiful town! Nice visit!
It is a very beautiful town! Thanks
So beautiful! I need to visit again. Thanks for showing Nafplio☺
You're welcome!
Lovely walks as always,calm and relaxing,thank you friend
Thank you!!
Hi Tiffany,2 Weeks ago I've been there too.Nafplion is a very nice place.I stayed for 3 Days in Agamemnon Hotel direct in front of the sea.Very nice with lift, good breakfast, clean and quit.And there are so many nice restaurants,Bars and Shops...My Favorite Taverne was the Vyzantio.Perfect greek manue,good housewine and a very romantic place
I Think it's absolut nessary to visit the castle👍to have this nice view .IT's the 2cnd time that I'm here and I'm sure that I will come back🤩enjoy your time and all the best🙂
Glad you enjoyed it as much as I did!
Yes,IT's fantastic.And I visited Hydra and Kap Sounion for 1 time.Absolut fantastic too🤩👍🤩👍
@@heikebeckmann6340 Sounds like you had a great trip!
I stayed very close to Agamemnon Hotel, and it was the perfect spot. Close enough so we could walk to Arvanitia Beach, and to town for shopping and dining.
Thanks for another great video Tiffany. My last visit was in 2019 and can't wait to go back there again. I'm looking forward to your next surpising video.
You’re welcome! Thanks for checking it out
Great video bringing back great memories. Naufplio is so underrated!
Thank you!
Beautiful video, thank you for sharing. Nafplio has been on my list for someday. Now I must go! So glad I found your videos, due to knee problems I haven't been traveling so this scratches my itch to go to Greece 😍
Thank you!! I am so glad you enjoyed it. It was great. I hope they continue to help.
Thanks for taking us with you!!!
I visited Nafplion in November 2021! Was superquiet but it was a bit chilly 🥶
Thanks for watching. I bet it was very quiet but nice.
Great video - Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!!
Amazingly beautiful 😍
Thank you!!
Great Video!! I’ve been to Nafplio, it was such a pretty town, very clean. So much history 😊
Thank you! It was very clean. There is so much history there.
I am so happy you went to Nafplio. It is so beautiful. I had gone to see the town when I was a student about 20 years ago and it was stunning. I am SO homesick now! I can’t wait to be back in my hometown of Athens this summer and then travel as much as possible, including to my mother’s home island of Kefalonia. Thank you for uploading this wonderful video. I look forward to your next one.
I am so glad you enjoyed it! It was a great city.
Thank you, what a beautiful video. Will make a point to visit someday, I hope.
Thank you! It is definitely worth a visit.
thanks for the video! I have Nafplio on my list to visit!!
You’re welcome! I highly recommend it.
Beautiful country 😊
It is for sure!
What a beautiful day 🙌🏽😎. Napflio was Greece's capital at some point 😉
I was there for a day late last September. It's a very cute town 🤩
Wow, looks like you got the castle to yourself 👸🏽
It was great! I can see why it was the first modern capital.
Beautiful ❤
Thank you!
Beautiful video 😍
Thank you!
Awesome video.!
Thank you!
so excited for you! I love Navplio, have been a few times. Mavros Gatos is a great bar/coffee hang if you are into that sorta thing.
It was great!
Another interesting/helpful video passport girl.when I started my research NEFPLIO was one of the first towns I found.
From there I’ll head for the coast to get a ferry for the short ride to Hydra.
Thank you! Sounds like a great trip.
the view was really nice.
It’s amazing!
Great video...like the little cameo of me at 20.40ish ;)
Thank you! It was nice to meet you on that boat!
My 3rd visit there I did via hire car, did get to see more of the local archeological sites 😎
Yeah it would have been nice to visit the other two sites nearby. Next time!
Excellent content
Glad you enjoyed it
I did the stairs and it was definitely a chest burner, the cells were something else if you were incarcerated in them..lovely video
Yeah I was not going to even try with my asthma. The whole thing was so amazing.
What a gorgeous island! Thank you Tiffany. I’m packed for my upcoming trip to the Northern Sporades but all the stairs you’ve taken have me again rethinking my footwear. I go every summer and you’d think I’d know by now, but they’re never good enough. :)
This is a city but on the water. Yes, good shoes are important here! Have a great trip!!
@@studiochange Not sure about online as I am not sure what you would be buying online here. Just make sure that the site you are using to purchase entry tickets is the official site.
Nafplio is not island
As for taking the stairs, it's a lot of them but easy, do plan to climb before it's too hot. You can take breaks every so often to take pictures along the way. Yes, you do have to pay to get in the castle/fortress.
By the way, love the thumbnail 👌🏽
Yes doing them early or late is a good idea. It would be horrible in the heat.
Took the hop on hop off mini version sight seing bus to Palamidi castle 8€ from harbour ( recycle site)returns hourly while about 5 pm. Took note of you're you tube before we arrived in Greece .
Very informative and extremely usefull.
Should have stayed overnight.
Great Idea! I didn't know about it until after I went. Glad you have found my videos helpful.
I wish I had known about that!
I need to go here!
You should! It was great.
Nafplio is an incredible town . I've been and stayed there more than 15 times. Tolo ,an adjacent little town ,has a wonderful beach as does an area called Karathona. One mistake you made was to ask the cabbie to wait for you .It would have been far cheaper to get another one back from up there or even walked down which is much easier than going up
If you want a similar experience go to Monemvasia.
I just came back from there after spending 10 wonderful days there. I made the same mistake. Personally $30 is steep, and of course there's a tip you have to give them. Next time taxi one way
I didn’t mind. I was never going to walk up or down given I was only there for one night. It would have been a waste of my time.
I went there 3 years ago, late September and I paid €30 for the night at another hotel, not same area but quite close and it was just perfect. I see that the same hotel and same period this year costs almost the double!
Prices are definitely going up this year. Electric rates have become very high so imagine hotels are trying to cover that.
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Where do you catch the 🚌 bus in Athens? Do you have to get the tickets very far in advance or maybe a day or two in advance?
I have really enjoyed your videos-they are so helpful!
5/30 I will be taking a taxi from Piraeus ferry port to the Athens Airport Sofitel. How much can I expect for that fare to be?
It depends on time of day but there is supposed to be a set fare from the Port. I think it is around €54-60. It is much cheaper to take the bus and should not take much longer. It is the X96 bus.
Hi! I will be going Nafplio next week! I saw in one of the website that there are Hop on-hop off buses. Have you seen any? Thank you!
Hi! I didn’t see any but that doesn’t mean there aren’t any. I did a quick Google search and I saw some. It looked like they are smaller buses than the big double decker ones we are used to.
Thank you Tiffany, it was great to see what I hope will soon be my home town! I’ll be in there again to look for an apartment soon in which to start my new life in Greece. Did you get to the Folk Museum? Well worth a visit. You chose a good taverna for your meal too, I’ve eaten there often and always well. Hope you’ll visit again soon Sarah PS Packing cubes are wonderful!!!
You picked a good one! I did not but I want to go back when I can visit the inside of Bourtzi so I am sure I will go back. Glad to hear that!
Nafplio is so beautiful. I love that you show how to take the bus from Athens. I have a couple of questions... I was planning on 3 nights in Nafplio but then I added 2 nights to Meteora so now our trip to Greece is 17 nights rather than 14 and this doesn't include the overnight flight from the East Coast of the US. I know you can never have too much time but, do you think this makes sense..... Flight from the US then flight to Santorini for 3 nights, Ferry to Naxos for 4 nights, Ferry to mainland and take the bus to Nafplio for 3 nights, then train to Meteora for 2 nights and finally end in Athens for 5 nights. If you had to cut any of these nights where would you? I don't want to short change Athens but should we do 3 nights Meteora and 4 nigths Athens since it will take a while to get to Meteora? Is this a good order for using public transportation? I really don't want to drive. I know it is a lot of back tracking to Athens to go to Nafplio and Meteora but I think everyone will love both. It really is hard to decide because I'm watching all of your videos and each place you go and every walk you video makes me want to add them to the list! So even though it is hard to decide, thank you so much for making these videos because it really shows me how to get around.
Thank you! I don’t think you need so many nights in Nafplio but I don’t know where you would add it back in. I’m glad you added a few days though. More ja always better as you say.
I adore Nafplio. I go there with the family at least once a year. It is my ambition to retire there one day. Just a stone's throw from Syntagma Square is the church of Agios Spyridonas where the first governor of the modern Greek state, Ioannis Kapodistrias, was shot and killed by opposing factions. The bullet hole is still on the outer wall of the church for everyone to see.
I walked past it but it wasn’t open and I was no dressed to go into a church either. I loved the little square in front of it. They were fixing the marble while I was there. It will be beautiful when it’s done.
Can you please provide link to purchase tickets? I didn't see it on your description.
Thanks!
Of course! Here is it, www.ktelargolida.gr/en/homepage-en/.
Nice video. What was the cost of the hotel and was it booked on Booking?
It was €86 a night but keep in mind that was a single room and in the off season. There is a link in the description box.
Hello,
Is there a fast ferry from athens to Santorini. ?
Yes there is. Check Ferryhopper
Hi Passport girl my Greek trip is getting closer…in 2 months.
I’m going to Nafplio from Sparta but there doesn’t seem to be a direct bus.
Do you think going Sparta- Athens then Athens -Nafplio is a good idea or would you say there’s a better way, thanks
There isn’t a direct bus. You can take the bus to Corinth and change there.
Hello Tiffany - how do you get to Kifissos Bus Station from Syntagma Square aside from a taxi ?
You can take the metro to a close stop and walk but it isn't that close to the metro. You can also take a bus from the closest metro. Look at Google Maps as it will give you the best route for your time of day.
My daughter just made a comment that with all the walking you do you must have very toned legs. She reckons it beats walking on a treadmill when you have scenery as beautiful and interesting as you showcased.
Haha! I wish. I also love food. It is definitely better than a treadmill!!
@@agirlandherpassport I hear you, having a Greek father and an Italian mum I never said no to a plate of food.
Keep enjoying life and great work
Thank you!
Is there Wi-Fi on the bus?
I think there is. I didn’t check as I have a wifi device that I use. The website says there is.
My family and I are planing on moving to the kalamata area and we have 2 young children 2 and 5 and was wondering if you know any American schools in that area I can’t seem to find any only in Athens.
Sorry, I don’t. I’m not a parent so I have no clue.
American schools are only in major cities ,Athens ,Thessaloniki and Larrisa maybe in Patras,not sure
They say there are 1001 steps to the fortress
There aren’t anymore. Time has destroyed some. And some say 999.
how much for the room?
I don't recall but you can check it here, www.stay22.com/allez/booking?campaign=ytcomment&aid=agirlandherpassport&link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.booking.com%2Fhotel%2Fgr%2Fathena-nauplio.en.html%3Faid%3D1361192%26no_rooms%3D1%26group_adults%3D2
We were there in Wednesday and Thursday before you arrived. While in Greece I keep looking for an American blonde taking videos 😂
I am hard to miss I think. Crazy blonde woman talking to a camera
Pity that debt destroyed Greece.