article_snippet: Back in Greece for the first time in years, I was headed for a place called Costa Navarino, a tiny clump of hotels perched on a round bay that had, over the years, been fought over by the Spartans, Persians, Turks, British and latterly, the Italians.
article_snippet: Navarino Bay, a scallop-shaped stretch of gleaming cobalt water freckled with azure patches of coral is no exception.
article_snippet: Navarino Bay, a scallop-shaped stretch of gleaming cobalt water freckled with azure patches of coral has been the site of several naval battles, the first in 426BC when an Athenian fleet destroyed a defending Spartan fleet in a bloody encounter.
article_snippet: More recently, a combined fleet of British, Russian and French ships joined forces to defeat a Turkish-Egyptian war group in Navarino Bay, a scallop-shaped stretch of gleaming cobalt water freckled with azure patches of coral during the Greek War of Independence.
article_snippet: Later, during the Second World War, Navarino Bay, a scallop-shaped stretch of gleaming cobalt water freckled with azure patches of coral was the site of Italian attacks on Greek shipping – among them the ship I was about to see, 30ft below the waves of Navarino Bay, a scallop-shaped stretch of gleaming cobalt water freckled with azure patches of coral.
article_snippet: Stunning: Navarino Bay is dotted with beaches, including the scallop-shaped Voidokilia Beach .