Drosopigi

In the village of Drosopigi, near the shores of Lake Stymphalia, stands a round tower from the Ottoman period, its diameter measuring some eleven metres. The structure is often mislabelled as the "tower of Notaras", after a prominent local family, but the connection appears to be a confusion rather than a fact of ownership or construction. The tower's condition today is not good, and its precise date of origin remains uncertain, with an eighteenth-century attribution offered only tentatively. It is a tower house in type, and while the visible fabric suggests a defensive or residential role typical of its era, little else is recorded of its builders or history. What survives is a sturdy, cylindrical presence within the village, a reminder of the region's Ottoman centuries, though one that raises more questions than it answers. Visitors will find a weathered monument, modest in ornament but considerable in girth, quietly anchoring the settlement's older layers.