Art & Culture | Pylos CityBook https://citybook.com.gr The Journey is the Discovery Tue, 11 Jun 2019 09:35:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://citybook.com.gr/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/loader-100x100.png Art & Culture | Pylos CityBook https://citybook.com.gr 32 32 “Shipwrecks” Exhibition Niokastro https://citybook.com.gr/listing/shipwrecks/ https://citybook.com.gr/listing/shipwrecks/#respond Sun, 26 May 2019 08:19:08 +0000 https://citybook.com.gr/?post_type=listing&p=6321

 

Shipwrecks Exhibition

Sunken Voyages, Human Explorations: Significant Traces in the Peloponnesian Sea’ Building of Pasha , Pylos Fort (Niocastro)
Goal of this exhibition is to obtain a representative image of the wealth of the underwater antiquities, by means of a selection of wrecks found around Peloponnese.

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Museum of Pylos

The Archaeological Museum of Pylos, recently relocated to the Niokastro Fortress, is now open to the public exhibiting finds from the wider Messinia region in the Peloponnese.

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The Heart of Pylos

The Three Admirals’ Square is in the heart of Pylos and constitutes a worth-to-visit spot in town. The square took its name by the homonymous monument which lies in the middle of it and is created by sculptor Thomopoulos.

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Palace of Nestor

 

The most well-preserved Mycenaean Palace in Greece is located in the area of Pylia and is Palace of Nestor, the famous king of Pylos.

It is located 4 kilometers south of the village of Chora on the hill of Epano Eglianos at a distance of 14 km from Pylos.

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Cave of Nestor

Above the beach of Voidokoilia, in Messinia, on the rock that Palaiocastro is also built, you will see a quite visible cave.

This is the mythical Cave of Nestor, an Homeric herowho was the son of Neleus.

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Paleokastro

Paleokastro, on the northern side of the Navarino Bay, was built around the 13th century by Franks and is the oldest of the two castles located in the area.

In 1573 it gave its way to Niokastro, which was built by the Ottomans near the entrance to the port of Pylos.

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Niokastro

Two castles are built on the summits of the two hills at the ends of the Bay of Navarino, overlooking the town of Pylos:

The older castle of Navarino, called Palaiokastron or Palaionavarinon and the more recent castle, called Niokastron.

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