{"id":8122,"date":"2021-08-08T08:59:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-08T05:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irissasuites.com\/2021\/08\/08\/%ce%bf%ce%b9-%ce%ba%cf%81%cf%85%ce%bc%ce%bc%ce%ad%ce%bd%ce%bf%ce%b9-%ce%b8%ce%b7%cf%83%ce%b1%cf%85%cf%81%ce%bf%ce%af-%cf%84%ce%bf%cf%85-%ce%bd%ce%b1%cf%85%cf%80%ce%bb%ce%af%ce%bf%cf%85\/"},"modified":"2022-06-06T16:46:16","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T13:46:16","slug":"hidden-gems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irissasuites.com\/en\/2021\/08\/08\/hidden-gems\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden gems of Nafplio, Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The enticing Museum of Worry Beads<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nThe owner of this museum committed more than 40 years to his project (the first and only museum of its kind in the world), collecting and learning everything there is to know about worry beads. About 700 different types of \u2018rosaries\u2019 \u2013 Muslim, Christian, Catholic, Hindu, Buddhist, Greek and Turkish are all represented in the collection.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The replica of Da Vinci\u2019s Last Supper<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nThe metropolitan church of Agios Georgios is one of the oldest churches in the city. The funerals of Palaiaon Patron Germanon, Dimitrios Ipsiliantis and Capodistrias all took place here. This is also where Otto, the first king of Greece, was crowned in the city of Nafplio. In the church\u2019s interior, you\u2019ll see an incredible replica of Leonardo Da Vinci\u2019s Last Supper, painted by one of his pupils.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Venetian Gate of Nafplio<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Pyli of Xiras constituted the only entrance to the lower town from land. Indeed, if you were on the outside when it closed, that\u2019s where you remained. Today, the outside of the gate has been restored to its original form.<\/p>\n<p>Source: discovergreece.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The owner of this museum committed more than 40 years to his project (the first and only museum of its kind in the world), collecting and learning everything there is to know about worry beads. About 700 different types of \u2018rosaries\u2019 \u2013 Muslim, Christian, Catholic, Hindu, Buddhist, Greek and Turkish are all represented in the collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[109],"tags":[110,111,112],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irissasuites.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irissasuites.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irissasuites.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irissasuites.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irissasuites.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.irissasuites.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8124,"href":"https:\/\/www.irissasuites.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8122\/revisions\/8124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irissasuites.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irissasuites.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irissasuites.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irissasuites.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}