Palamidi
Palamidi is a fortress to the east of the Acronauplia in the town of Nafplio in the Peloponnese region of southern Greece. Nestled on the crest of a 216-metre high hill, the fortress was built by the Venetians during their second occupation of the area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Castle
- Description: Venetian fortress in Nafplio, Greece
- Also known as: “Fortress of Palamidi”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Folk Art Museum and Land Gate.
Folk Art Museum
Museum
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The Basil Papantoniou Foundation or BPF is a nonprofit cultural institution and museum based in Nafplion, Greece. It was founded in 1974 by the stage and costume designer Ioanna Papantoniou in memory of her father Vasilis Papantoniou. Folk Art Museum is situated 600 metres northwest of Palamidi.
Land Gate
City gate
Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Land Gate is a city gate, which is situated 340 metres northwest of Palamidi.
Archaelogical Museum
Museum
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The Archaeological Museum of Nafplio is a museum in the town of Nafplio of the Argolis region in Greece. It has exhibits of the Neolithic, Chalcolithic, Helladic, Mycenaean, Classical, Hellenistic and Roman periods from all over southern Argolis. Archaelogical Museum is situated 730 metres northwest of Palamidi.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nafplio and Aria.
Nafplio
Photo: Simisa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Nafplio is a small town in Peloponnese. A romantic downtown with cozy streets, a great place to stay for radial travelling around Peloponnese.
Aria
Village
Aria is a community in the municipality of Nafplio, Argolis, southern Greece. It consists of the villages Aria and Exostis. Its population is 3,529. Aria is situated 2½ km east of Palamidi.
Tiryns
Village
Photo: George E. Koronaios, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tiryns is a village, which is situated 4 km north of Palamidi.
Palamidi
- Categories: fortress, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Nafplio, Argolis, Peloponnese, Greece, Balkans, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Western Armenian—“Palamidi” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Паламідзі”
- Belarusian: “Палямідзі”
- Bulgarian: “Паламиди”
- Cebuano: “Palamídi”
- Chinese: “帕拉米蒂城堡”
- Finnish: “Palamídi”
- French: “forteresse Palamède”
- French: “Forteresse Palamède”
- German: “Palamidi”
- Greek: “Palamídhion”
- Greek: “Palamídi”
- Greek: “Παλαμήδι”
- Greek: “Παλαμίδι”
- Greek: “Παλαμίδιον”
- Greek: “Φρούριο Παλαμηδίου”
- Hungarian: “Palamidi”
- Italian: “Palamidi”
- Japanese: “パラミディ要塞”
- Lithuanian: “Palamidi”
- Lithuanian: “Palamidis”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Palamidi”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Palamídi”
- Polish: “Palamidi”
- Russian: “Паламиди”
- Spanish: “Castillo Palamedes”
- Spanish: “Fortaleza Palamedes”
- Spanish: “Palamedes”
- Swedish: “Palamídi”
- Tatar: “Паламиди кальгасы”
- Ukrainian: “Паламіді”
- Western Armenian: “Փալամիտի բերդ”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Palamidi”. Photo: Brastite, CC BY-SA 3.0.