Kolokotronis Park  

Further on, on the east side, there is a beautiful park, in which one can see Κοlokotronis' statue, a work of sculpture by Lazarus Socho, carved in Paris at the studio of Α. Mercier. The clay model recei­ved honorary awards in Paris and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. It is considered Sochos' best work. It was cast in Paris and set up in Nauplion in 1901 Α similar statue exists in Athens. It cost 18.000 gold francs, a fund vaised by collection all over Greece.

Morea's Old Man lived and acted in Nauplion for many years. He bad happy days and bitter days here. He loved Nauplion particularly. Α litt1e farther out of the city one can see his farm, where there also exists his private chapel of Agioi Theodori. It was there that Otho's gendarmes arrested him to lock him in Itch - Kale prison for six months. After his sentence by the Parliament for treason against the King (1834), he was locked in a horrible, dark dungeon in Pa­lamidi. The day he was set free, Nauplion and the nearby villages received him with celebrity. Morea's Old Man exclaimed in his enthusiasm: «The reception by the people of Nauplion made me forget all the misfor­tunes Ι have been through».