Agios Georgios-Falandra
The Church of Saint George at Falandra is a fortified ecclesiastical relic, standing beside the car park for the Phaistos archaeological site on the w…
43 documented Venetian 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.
The Church of Saint George at Falandra is a fortified ecclesiastical relic, standing beside the car park for the Phaistos archaeological site on the w…
Near the village of Kritsa, ten kilometres west of Agios Nikolaos and known for its fine olive oil, the site called Ambela holds the scant remains of …
The great ring of defences around Heraklion is the finest surviving fortification of its age in the Mediterranean, a Venetian project begun in 1462 an…
The Venetians held Crete from 1212, relying for centuries on the old Byzantine fortification on the Castello hill near the port, but the ruinous raid …
Gramvousa, known in antiquity as Koryko and later by the Venetian name Garabuse, carries a fortress built between 1579 and 1584 on the island's highes…
The Vardiola of Avlemon is a compact Venetian watchtower, known locally as a vardiola, standing at the small port of Avlemonas on the island of Kythir…
The Goulas, or Pyrgos, stands near the traditional settlement of Kastelli in Emporio, Santorini’s largest village, some twelve kilometres from Fira. T…
On the hill called Goulas, above the village of Vounaria north of Koroni, stand the scant remains of a small Venetian fort. It was built early in the …
The Glezos Tower, also known as the Crispi Tower, is the sole survivor of the twelve perimeter towers that once guarded the castle of Naxos, and it re…
On a low but steep hill three kilometres east-southeast of Dimaina in Argolis, Vassa offers a tangle of ruins that span two very different ages. The o…
A dry-stone fortification stands in ruins on a coastal hill west of Perama, directly opposite the Salamis naval base. Its history is entirely unknown:…
The Museum of Chalkis occupies what survives of the Venetian "Castle of Negreponte", the fortress that once guarded the city. Likely raised in the 15t…
Chalandrokastro is a ruined medieval fortification on a rocky hill about two kilometres southwest of Agra in Lesvos, close to the road to Mesotopos. I…
The ancient city of Azoros, the best fortified of the three towns that made up the Perraivian Tripolis in northern Thessaly, sits south of the modern …
The Provlakas tower is a faint ghost of Byzantine monastic defence, reduced to a few indistinct ruins on a low mound 1.5 kilometres southwest of Nea R…
On a steep, high hill called Agios Dimitrios, three and a half kilometres east of Theologos on Thassos, lie the scant ruins of a late Byzantine castle…
The castle at Peristerona, known locally as Kales, is a Byzantine-era ruin perched on a low hill above the southwestern shore of Lake Volvi. Its histo…
On the small island of Agios Nikolaos, just off the eastern coast of Rhodes near Archangelos beach, stands the scant remains of a fortified tower. Bui…
On the summit of Mount Atavyros, Rhodes’ highest peak at 1,216 metres, the ruins of a Byzantine fortified monastery stand above the remnants of a far …
Beside the working farm of Moni Panagia Amartou, founded in 1452 on a fertile Rhodian plateau, stand the ruins of a late-medieval tower. The structure…
On a steep limestone outcrop rising from the softer hills of the Ermionida hinterland, the scant ruins of Mylorema keep watch over the Gulf of Hydra a…
High on a cliff of Mount Klokos, in a natural cavity, stand the remains of a monastery that predates the one now visible in the valley below. Founded …
A square tower, reduced to little more than a stump, stands on a low hill above the village of Pournarokastro, at the foot of Mount Panachaikon, not f…
The Aga Tower stands as a ruined medieval remnant on a slight rise among the fields, two kilometres northeast of Erythres, the old Kriekouki, near the…
Standing six hundred metres northeast of the village of Dafnonas on Chios, the tower at Lavrina is a rather poor medieval tower house, one of several …
About a hundred metres from the church of Agia Paraskevi, on a hillside three kilometres north of Dafnonas in Chios, stands a medieval tower house of …
A small Venetian outpost, probably raised in the fifteenth century, sits on a steep rock on the northern flank of Mount Varasova in Aitoloakarnania, a…
In the middle of Sidirounda, a hilltop village on Chios, stands a medieval tower opposite the church of Agios Georgios. Local tradition remembers it a…
The village of Kadi takes its name from a tower, not the other way around. At the centre of the settlement, beside the church, stands a Venetian tower…
The tower at Madamia stands south of the modern village of Polydroso, close to the Xerias torrent, and survives only as a ruin. Its construction date …
The ancient acropolis of Pandosia crowns a hill above the village of Kastri, near Parga, its ruins now all that remain of a city with a long and varie…
On the islet of Agioleni, inside the bay of Sagiada in Epirus and close to the salt pans, stands the ruined remnant of a substantial cylindrical tower…
On a low, smooth hill some 500 metres northeast of Tsimandria on Lemnos stand the ruins of a tower that has outlived every record of its own making. T…
Morfonou Tower is the surviving remnant of the Amalfinon monastery, one of Mount Athos’s earliest major foundations, established in the tenth century …
Above the port of Nea Kallikrateia in Chalkidiki, beside the road, lie the scant foundations of a Byzantine tower. Its origins are uncertain, but the …
Pyrgoudia is a Byzantine tower, raised in the early thirteenth century as a dependency of the Athonite monastery of Iviron. Its purpose was twofold: t…
The tower at Gomati is a late Byzantine ruin, probably raised in the fourteenth century, and one of the many defensive structures that once guarded th…
Chrysopolis, a Byzantine port city that rose to prominence after the tenth century, occupied a lagoon at the Strymonas river delta, close to Amphipoli…
The site called Loggos is the surviving lower quarter of ancient Edessa in central Macedonia, a rare remnant of a city that otherwise retreated uphill…
The Marmari tower stands on a hill between the town of Amfipolis and the river Strymon, looking out over the archaeological site of Amphipolis. It was…
Out in the fields three kilometres east of Efkarpia, near the west bank of the Strymon, stand the rather poor ruins of a large tower. It is not mentio…
On the west coast of Rhodes, near Vasilika, stands a watchtower from the closing decades of the Knights Hospitaller's rule. Built in 1476, it forms pa…
The Belesi watchtower is a Frankish ruin on a low rock beside the road to Kefalovryso in Argolis, a village once known as Ano Belesi. What survives is…
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