New Castle of Pylos — Attraction in Municipality of Pylos and Nestor

A beautiful site giving spectacular views of the bay from the walls. Therebisca lot to see as the castle covers a large area.pne of the best sites I have visited in greece. It is possible to walk some areas of the walls but health and safety is not paramount in these places so it is neccesary to supervise children and care must be taken as there is no hand rails or barriers in place on steps and the walls. Had a great few hours there and it is well worth a visit. I think that the entrance fee was 10 euros but well worth the cost. There is also a museum on site. The site is slowly being renovated and I would like to visit some time in the future to see the results. But I think that completion is going to be a long way off. Beautiful area well worth the visit. We also did a boat tour of the bay with stops at historical sites and for swimming and snorkeling which was very interesting and informative. 20 euros...

Greece, a splendid example of sixteenthcentury military architecture. It was built by the Turks in 1573, two years after their defeat by the Christian allies at Lepanto, the last great sea-battle in which oared ships were involved. To build Niokastro the Turks brought in European engineers and architects.

They complied with all the specifications required for the castle to be defended from landward, and still more from seaward and for it to have withinits circuit a group of dwellings and a reinforced citadel. The castle’s walls were enlarged to eight and a half metres in height and three metres in breadth. This castle was a reinforcement for the south-west top of the Ottoman Empire, and the Turks thereby obtained safe harbourage against a...

--- 8th October --- Beneath the cliffs where Nestor once did reign, And olive groves drank sun and salt and rain, A bay lay sleeping, wide and deep and still Till cannon roared to break an empire’s will.

The mastheads rose like forests on the sea, Three nations met where Greece longed to be free. The wind grew loud with smoke and iron breath, And freedom danced between the jaws of death.

No trumpet called, yet hearts like lightning burned. The tide of war had silently turned. Navarino - where tyrants met their fate, And Greece was lifted by the hand of fate.

Not just by sword, but will and foreign grace, She carved her name on time’s eternal face. And though the ships are gone, the bay still knows The fire that fell, and the...