GREECE PELOPONNESE ARGOLIS NAFPLION MUSEUM

On one end of the Platia Sintagmatos (Constitution Square) sits the Archaeological Museum of Nauplion in a building erected in 1713 by the Venetian Providor Sagredos, during the second Venetian occupation of the area, to become the arsenal of the Venetian fleet. You still see a Venetian lion with inscription above the entrance.

The museum houses items that mainly come from the nearer sites of Asine, Dendra, Tiryns, Mycenae, and from the area of Nauplion itself. After its long-lasting refurbishment it can now be counted with its new layout and a refreshingly decent set of texts accompanying the finds as one of the most interesting archaeological museums in Greece.

Prominently displayed at the entrance of the first room is the bronze cuirass found in a grave at Dendra of the 15th century BC. It is a quite unique item and very well preserved. The cuirass consists of four parts: the collar, the shoulder pads, the breast-plate and an articulated section of three broad belts for the protection of the warrior's body. It is completed by a reconstructed helmet with boar's tusks.