Nafplio

Low temperatures and gusty north winds will be the main features of weather at the weekend as a polar vortex brings a 48-hour heavy winter to the European south as well, forecasters predict.

Recently, a significant scandal involving the Catholic Church in Greece has emerged, revealing a money laundering operation that has been ongoing for eight years, with an estimated total of around 3 million euros involved.

A 14-year-old boy has died after falling from a height in a stadium in the town of Nafplio in the Peloponnese.

Initial reports said the boy fell from a considerable height at the town's municipal stadium shortly after 1 p.m.

The teenager was found by a security guard, who called for an ambulance.

Police are investigating the circumstances of the accident.

A plan to revive an abandoned meter gauge railway line in the Peloponnese to serve not just as a historic attraction but also passenger needs has received a significant boost after Switzerland offered its help and expertise, the Athens-Macedonian News Agency reported on Tuesday.

Nine Egyptian men cleared by a Greek court of involvement in a migrant shipwreck disaster remain unfairly held in administrative detention days after they were freed from jail, their lawyers said Monday.

A judge in the southern town of Nafplio on Tuesday is expected to hear a legal appeal for their release, the lawyers told a press conference in Athens.

The 9th Mediterranean Yacht Show (MEDYS) will be held from April 27 to May 1 in Nafplio, in the eastern Peloponnese.

According to a statement, owners of 120 vessels have expressed an interest in the 95 available berths at the port of the southern Greek city, leading to another year with a waiting list.

Shots were fired outside a hospital in the city of Nafplio, Peloponnese on Monday evening.

According to information from state broadcaster ERT, the shots were fired between two men, of separate Roma ethnicity families, who were at odds with each other. 

Two people were slightly injured, while residents in the area locked themselves in their homes.

A municipal court in the town of Nafplio in the Peloponnese in southern Greece has found a 40-year-old cleric from Ermionida guilty of sending lewd video material to a 13-year-old, in a case that shocked the nation when it was first publicized a few weeks ago. 

The picturesque town of Nafplio, in the northeastern Peloponnese, is preparing to host the eighth Mediterranean Yacht Show from April 29 through May 3, in what has evolved into the biggest exhibition of professional manned recreation boats internationally.

The great dynamics of the Greek professional yacht license, which is threatened with "abolition" by the draft law of the Ministry of Shipping under discussion in Parliament, according to market participants, is highlighted by the comparison of data related to two international yacht exhibitions held next week in Barcelona and Nafplio.