The port of Nafpaktos is tiny and makes one wonder where exactly did 300 Ottoman ships fit. Thankfully, the Ottoman explorer Evliya Çelebi, who visited Nafpaktos in the late 1660s,offers a valuable clue. He described the port as he found it, almost a century after the battle of Lepanto, but we have no reason to doubt that nothing much had changed. According to him, the port was surrounded by a wall and only a handful of important ships docked within its protective embrace. The rest of the fleet dropped anchor in the open bay outside the port. The walls are low but thick and have many towers. It was from here that the Ottoman fleet sailed to meet the Christians over the horizon to the west of Nafpaktos, near the entrance to the Gulf of Patras.