Nafplio

Our route to ancient Mycenae took us through the beautiful coastal city of Nafplio, where we stopped for lunch and some strolling and shopping in its old town. Nafplio has little of classical or pre-classical interest, but is within site of Argos, Tiryns, and Mycenae; and it is an ambience-laden little place well worth a stop, or longer.

Fortress over-looking Nafplio

Even more scenic little fortress out in the harbor



Beautiful old building on the square; when Greece won its 
independence from the Ottomans in the 1820s, Nafplio was 
its first capital

Alley way

So far as we could tell, Nafplio is the worry-bead capital of Greece; the amber 
ones are very attractive

Amber's House of Amber, where Vicki stimulated the local 
economy

Nafplio's square

Back on the road, past modern Greece, classical Greece, the dark ages that 
followed the Bronze Age, and into the world of the Myceneans, the stuff of 
Homer; here, a Mycenaen bridge out in the countryside