The Library and the «ΡALAMEDES» Society

At the end of Amalias street, in the building of Nauplion's old primary school there is the Public Library, organized in 1951 by «Palamedes» the progressive society of Nauplion. Today it contains 15.000 volumes and it is the spiritua1 meeting place of Nauplion's young people. Besides books of

general interest, the Kyriakopoulos room contains a full series of books on Law, re­presenting the bibliography of the last 50 years. Recently the library was enriched with rare editions of the 18th and 19th century which were transferred there from the library of Nauplion's High Schoo1. In this wing one can find handwritten books, old manuscripts and works of the Nation's Teachers like Voulgaris, Theotokis, Koraes etc. In the library building there is also the lecture room, where each year the society «Palamedes» organizes a series of lectures. Its tribune has been honoured by famous lecturers, who presented to the public of Nauplion different scientific, social and lite­rary subjects.

The study room of the library is decora­ted with the busts of Kalliopi Papalexopoulou, who took an active part in the 1862 Revolution for the expulsion of Otho, and of Demetrius Sagias mayor of Nauplion (1846 - 1966), who reformed the city during those twenty years.

At the entrance to the Library there is the bust of Nauplion's bard Α. Anapliotis (Antony Lecopoulos 1866 - 1951). He worked in Athens as a high rank official at the Ministry of Interior, but he always looked back with homesickness to his native city, which he praised in various poems bearing his personal artistic character : Humour, detailed description, rich rime, vivid memory, play of the verses.