The Saint Spyridon church can be found hiding in one of the small back alleyways of the Old City.
This church played a very important part of local and national modern history as this is the place Ioannis Capodistrias, the first governor of the newly liberated Greece was assassinated in 1831. After many years of war the country was devastated economically and physically.
Capodistrias accomplishments were many. Apart from bringing an end to the expanding crime wave he was also responsible for creating the first modern currency and the National Bank of Greece. Many of the local powerful and aristocratic families didn’t agree with him and on the 27th September 1831 he was assassinated on his way to church. This unfortunate end to a great war hero brought chaos to the country until King Otto descended onto Nafplion taking the capital back with him to Athens.
Bullet holes of the assassination can still be found behind a glass frame at the entrance of the church.