An important seaport held under a succession of Royal houses in the Middle Ages under the lordship of Argos and Nauplia, Nafplio is a city in the Peloponnese in Greece which expands throughout the hillsides toward the north end of the Argolic Gulf.
Nafplio was initially held by the de la Roche following the Fourth Crusade before coming under the Republic of Venice and, lastly, the Ottoman Empire.
Now the capital of the Argolis region, Nafplio was once the capital of the First Hellenic Republic and of the Kingdom of Greece, from 1821 to 1834 during the Greek Revolution.
Popular sites to see in Nafplio include the Acronauplia or "Inner Castle"; the oldest part of the city, which until the 13th century was its own city before the arrival of the Venetians and the Franks transformed it into part of the town fortifications.
Later, part of the Inner Castle was used as a prison until the Greek government decided that the view provided from its location would benefit the local tourism and built a hotel complex which still stands there today.
