We anchored off this ancient miniature harbour for 2 nights. We even walked right to the top of the castle in the midday heat. Being mad and English we wanted to acclimatise before our visit to Delfi.
The fort at Navpaktos was merely about 500 years old so not really all that ancient by the standards of things here. We walked to the top and around the walls and were impressed by how well the fort has stood up to its 500 years. Of course its origins are much older but it was in about 1571 that the Battle of Lepanto was staged here, when the Turks were convincingly ousted and lost 50 of their 200 galleys and 20,000 men either killed or captured by the combined forces of Venice, Spain, Malta, Naples and Genoa. The Venetians took control of the city / trading post and increased the fort to what it is seen as now.
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