PLACE DES TROIS-AMIRAUX
Large pedestrian square marking the entrance to Nafplio's old town, with monuments and beautiful neoclassical facades.
This 100 m-long esplanade (Πλατεία Τριών Ναυάρχων/Platia Trion Navarchon) forms the entrance to the old town. Designed in 1827, it owes its name to the admirals of the Anglo-Franco-Russian fleet (Codrington, De Rigny and Van Geiden) who won the naval battle of Navarin against the Ottomans in Messinia that same year. The square is bordered on the south by neoclassical buildings. The pink-walled, three-storey building dates back to 1833 and housed the second high school in Greece, after the one in Syros. Since 1992, it has housed the town hall. To the west stands the statue of King Otto (1994). It stands on the site of the Governor's Palace, destroyed by fire in 1929, where Ioannis Kapodistria, head of the first Greek government from 1828 to 1831, sat. In the central part is the monumental tomb (1843) of Dimitrios Ypsilantis (1795-1832), military officer and president of the Greek National Assembly during the War of Independence. Just to the east, crossing Andreas Syggrou Street, you can take a break in Kapodistrias Park. It features the white marble statue (1934) of Ioannis Kapodistria. An astonishing character, he was a Venetian from Corfu. He was a member of the government of the French departments of Greece (1802-1807), ambassador and foreign minister of Russia (1813-1822), then first head of government of Greece, in Nafplio, where he was assassinated in 1831, probably at the instigation of France and the United Kingdom.
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