If you are in Pilosit is worth visiting a boat of the island of the Bay of Navarino, SFACTIRIA and adjacent rocky island Tsihili Baba (Τσιχλί μπαμπά) with a characteristic vertical arch.
Arriving on the island, you can get to the top, rising 134 steps. Here is located in 1890 the monument dedicated to the French in the Battle of Navarino in 1890. The view from the top is unique, since you will see a pilos with Niocastro and the entire bay of Navarino at your feet.
The second name of the island of Fanari – Tsihili woman, This is due to him because of the lighthouse standing there since 1873. In the SFACTIRIA there is the grave of the field of Bonaparte, nephew of Emperor Napoleon (Great). Paul Marie Bonaparte was a hot philhell and participated in the war for the independence of Greece. In March 1827, at the age of 18, he left the city secret from his parents and through Ancona, under a stranger, went to Greece on the ship to take part in the war for the independence of the Hellenes that lasted 6 years.
Arriving at first on the Ionian Islands, Paul Bonaparte was later adopted by the English admiral Kokrane, who during this period was entrusted with the command of the Greek fleet. Paul remained to serve on the flagship frigate of Hellas. After a series of unsuccessful actions of Kokrain with the frigate of Hellas, a sailing-pair of karteria, under the command of Gastings and another 20 Greek ships, stood in a strait near the island of Specials.
On August 25/September 6, 1827, Paul Bonaparte, who was on the frigate, was mortally wounded, inadvertently treating weapons – when cleaning his own pistol. After the end of the liberation war of Greece, in 1832, the embalmed body of the Bonaparte field was buried in the Mausoleum on the island of Sfacteria, next to the French sailors who fell in Navarinsky battle.
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