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On the steep hill called Kastri, which divides the beaches of Kouremenos and Chiona at Crete’s easternmost coast near Sitia, stood a fortress known to…
30 documented Ottoman sites across Greece, each with real history, a location, and cited sources. A sample below; the full set travels with you offline in the Atika app.
On the steep hill called Kastri, which divides the beaches of Kouremenos and Chiona at Crete’s easternmost coast near Sitia, stood a fortress known to…
The Tower Tha stands as a scant remnant of Rhodes’ late-medieval Hospitaller period, a rectangular residential tower raised in 1477, according to Step…
On a conical hill called Agia Triada, above the village of Silimna in Arcadia, five kilometres west of Tripoli, lie the scant ruins of a castle whose …
On the eastern slope of hill Lachties, in the wildlife refuge of Mount Kasteli-Blosti at the northern end of Paliki peninsula, lie the ruins of a medi…
Above Loutsa beach, on the north-eastern flank of the entrance to Vathy bay, two iron cannons sit on what look like makeshift bases. In fact they are …
On a low hill north of Efpalion in Phocis stand the ruins of a Turkish tower house, probably built towards the end of the 18th century. Locally it is …
The Madem Aga tower is the surviving administrative heart of a far older enterprise. It stands in ruins within what archaeologists now call the mediev…
The tower at Sidirokafsia is the most visible survivor of a fortified settlement that once thrived on silver and lead production. Known officially as …
Maroulas II is the smaller and more neglected of two surviving Venetian towers in the hill village of Maroulas, some 240 metres above sea level near R…
Maroulas, a village set at 240 metres above sea level near Rethymno in Crete, is a medieval settlement of genuine character: narrow lanes, crenellated…
The Tzerefochori Tower stands as a lonely remnant of a vanished settlement in the hilly country north of Faraklo, near Neapolis in Laconia. Its histor…
The monastery of Chrysopigi stands on the rock above Kastro, the old quarter of Sikinos’s main village, and it is a curious hybrid: a place of worship…
A Byzantine town on a slab of rock that an earthquake split from the Peloponnesian coast, reached by a single causeway, which is what its name means: …
North of Oitylo, where the old settlement of Petrouliniaka once stood, a fortified monastery survives in poor condition. Its protective wall includes …
In the small Laconic village of Asimi, within the Municipality of Evrota, stands an 18th century Ottoman tower house, one of the few surviving structu…
The rock above the Myrtoan Sea was first fortified in the 9th century, when the Byzantines established a naval observatory there to keep watch over Sa…
On a hill on the eastern flank of Taygetos, above the Eurotas valley and northeast of modern Dafni, lie the scattered remains of Lykovouno, a Byzantin…
On the island of Lesbos, the Tower of Agha stands as a solid, four-square Ottoman tower-house dated to 1706. It is a rare surviving example of a forti…
On the hill called Palaiokastro, three kilometres north-east of Servos in Gortynia, western Arcadia, lie the ruins of a fortified medieval settlement …
On a hill called Palaiokastro, about 1,200 metres west of the village of Daphne near Kalavryta, a few scattered stones and a short stretch of dry wall…
The little island of Agios Andreas, lying off Zakynthos' northwestern coast, once carried a monastery whose fortifications now survive only in a rathe…
The tower of Ai-Giannis stands on a deserted islet within the lagoon of Tholi, part of the wider Missolonghi lagoon system. It belongs to a small mona…
On a hill southwest of Neochori, in the municipality of Missolonghi, stand the rather poor remains of the Taxiarches monastery. Founded in 1742, it se…
A small French fort stands on a hill at the edge of the southwestern arm of the Gulf of Vathy in Ithaca, facing a counterpart bastion at Loutsa on the…
The Kleisoura tower, also known as the Kazarma, stands as a rather poor ruin on a low hill just south of Frangouleika, above the Rio-Agrinio road at t…
The Muhtarina is a tumbledown Ottoman tower house, now reduced to poor ruins, standing on a low hill among olive groves on the northern shore of Lake …
On the southeastern tip of Skorpios, the small Ionian islet off Lefkada, stands a ruined tower of uncertain age, probably built around the sixteenth c…
The remains of a fortress-monastery stand on a hill above the village of Samoniva in Thesprotia, facing the better-known stronghold of Kiafa across th…
Built in 1744, Poulcheria is a square stone tower that stands as a compact reminder of Ottoman-era Greece. Structures like this served practical purpo…
A few metres from the shore of Glyfada Bay, on Rhodes’ west coast below the village of Lakki, stands a late-medieval watchtower built by the Knights H…
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