Navpaktos Favorite Tips by Lilasel Top 5 Page for this destination

The Bridge

Favorite thing: The new bridge crosses the merge point between the Corinth Gulf and the Patraikos Gulf, connecting "mainland" Greece with its huge peninsula, the Peloponnese. For a 10 Euro charge, drivers can easily make the crossing.

The Bridge

Favorite thing: You can get to Nafpaktos by intercity bus from Athens (via Rion-Antirion). A year ago you could do it only by ferry. Now it's more comfortable because the bridge Rion-Antirion was finally finished (for Olympic Games)

Nafpaktos' Castle

Favorite thing: Watching from the top of Nafpaktos’Castle the panorama of Corinthian and the opposite Peloponnesian line you are out of the reality in some way. Down, in front of your legs, you can see the small picturesque Venetian port dandle between yesterday and today.

Fondest memory: More info about Nafpaktos: http://www.nafpaktos.com/

Beaches

Favorite thing: The seaside of 5 and more kilometres allows to choose a nice place for swimming and sunbathing.
The climate of Nafpaktos is considered one of the best of the country. It is mild with a soft winter and a cool summer.

The port

Favorite thing: The historical centre which is immured, it appears an interesting, traditional town-planned set that in combination with the successive battlements of the Venetian fort compose an historic environment. The area is structured under strict orders of constructing and esthetic expression.

The types of the traditional residences that we meet in Nafpaktos’ town are folk civil residence of two floors; neoclassic residence with isolated patterns in the west side of the town; recent civil residence of the Interwar’s period to the east side of the town.

Sightseeings

Favorite thing: The many earthquakes that battered the place from time to time, in combination with the fact that the city was being habitated all the time – for more than 3.500 years - this had as a result the loss of important ancient monuments, except for its fort.

The city, every time that it was being destroyed after it was being built under its ruins. Because of this, its subsoil is full of ancient findings from all the ages of its history.

The fort

Favorite thing: From the fort opens beautiful view on a passage and Nafpaktos beaches. The time to stop...

Miguel de Cervantes

Favorite thing: Nafpaktos is also famous for the battle that took place off its shores on 7 October in 1571.
The sea battle was between the Ottoman Empire and Holy League forces from Spain, Venice, Genoa, and the Papal States jointly commanded by the Spanish soldier Don John of Austria.
Miguel de Cervantes, the famous Spanish writer (1547-1616), participated in this battle. He recounted many of his experiences in the novel "Don Quixote".

One of my favourite towns in Greece

Favorite thing: Nafpaktos is a small historical and picturesque town in a distance of 8 km. from Antirio and 216 km. from Athens. It’s built amphitheatrically on the side of a hill, which lies on the sea opposite to Peloponnese between Delphi and Messologi. The old town situated in the Walls has kept its own style, its old face. Your look meets everywhere the beauty, the harmony, the serenity.