Aga Tower

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 Attica-Boeotia border. Its history is largely unknown. The name suggests it served during the Turkish occupation as the centre of a tsiflik, a local estate. The first scholar to note it, Pritchett in 1957, found it much as it appears today and proposed a Frankish origin, though he did not rule out an ancient Greek or Roman predecessor. Kastrologos agrees it was likely Frankish, given its resemblance to other towers in Central Greece, and so it probably housed a fief after 1204. The surviving structure measures roughly eight by seven metres, with the northwest wall rising to 2.85 metres. Walls of semi-processed stone and mortar contain tile fillings for stability, while the lower base uses larger, finer stones, hinting at older work. A concrete staircase protruding from the rubble suggests the tower was inhabited into the twentieth century, perhaps until the Civil War, before collapsing or being stripped for materials.