Agia Triada - Zarouchla

A tower house stands about 500 metres from the village of Zarouchla in Achaea, close to the deserted monastery of Agia Triada, or Holy Trinity. The church itself is post-Byzantine, dating from the 15th or 16th century, though its interior frescoes were painted later, in the late 18th century. The tower, by contrast, was probably raised in the first half of the 18th century, a judgement based on its resemblance to other Ottoman-period buildings in Greece. It does not appear to have belonged to the monastery. Its condition is rather poor today, and it survives as a modest, somewhat forlorn structure beside the abandoned religious house, offering a quiet hint of the region's later Byzantine and Ottoman layers rather than any dramatic fortification.