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Nafplio has one driving restriction on our books: the Έγκριση της υπ’ αρ. 77/30.03.2026 (ΑΔΑ: Ψ22ΥΩΚΦ-Η49) απόφασης του… (limited traffic zone). What is a limited traffic zone?
Sources last read on 2026-09-24, from the authorities' own pages. The next scheduled check is 2026-12-23.
Nafplio is the first capital of modern Greece and one of the country's most walked towns, and on 24 July 2026 the Αποκεντρωμένη Διοίκηση Πελοποννήσου, Δυτικής Ελλάδας και Ιονίου gazetted a decision that puts no-entry signs on four groups of its pedestrian streets. 🔑 The act approves «η τοποθέτηση ρυθμιστικών πινακίδων Ρ-55» — regulatory sign Ρ-55 — at four named places: the municipal road between town-plan blocks Ο.Τ.
70 and Ο.Τ. 64 in front of the 1st Gymnasium, running from Skoumpi street to the Nafplio–N. Kiou coast road, together with the pedestrian street crossing it as far as Oiakos; Averof street in front of the church of Agia Triada between Gen.
Kolokotroni and Giannopoulou, and Averof again between Papakostopoulou and Ach. Paraschou at Plateia Ethnosynelefseos, both in the Pronia district; the pedestrian streets running off Palamidiou street; and the municipal streets Praxitelous, Lykourgou and Solonos, also in Pronia. 🔑 Ρ-55 is not a mild sign.
The Highway Code defines it as «Οδός υποχρεωτικής διέλευσης πεζών (πεζόδρομος, απαγορευμένης της διέλευσης άλλων εκτός πεζών, οχημάτων άμεσης ανάγκης και οχημάτων για την είσοδο - έξοδο σε παρόδιες ιδιοκτησίες)» — a road for the compulsory passage of pedestrians, with everything else barred except emergency vehicles and vehicles going in and out of frontage properties.
The exceptions are the Code's, not the municipality's, and they are the only ones. 🚨 And the act says plainly when it starts, which is the most unusual thing about it: «Τα μέτρα που λαμβάνονται σύμφωνα με την παρούσα, ισχύουν από την τοποθέτηση της προβλεπόμενης κατακόρυφης και οριζόντιας σήμανσης» — the measures apply from the moment the signs go up. Not from publication, not from a date.
So `effective_from` is null here because the act refuses to give a date, not because this project failed to find one, and the sign on the street is the authority. ⚠️ Read this page for what it is: this act does not create Nafplio's pedestrian streets, it signs four groups of them.
The streets were designated by council decision 115/30.05.2025, «την έγκριση του κανονισμού όλων των χαρακτηρισμών πεζόδρομων εντός των διοικητικών ορίων του Δήμου Ναυπλιέων», which is not in the gazette and which this project has not read — the municipality's own site answered a Cloudflare challenge on 2026-09-24 and we do not work around one. 🚫 So the famous Old Town below the Palamidi is not described here.
Nothing on this page says which of its lanes are pedestrian streets, and a driver should not read four signed places as the whole map of a town that has many more. There is no season, no clock, no charge and no permit anywhere in this act.