Fountain near Panagia Tourloti, Pyrgoi Thermis

This Neoclassical fountain stands beside the Church of Panagia Tourloti in Pyrgoi Thermis on Lesbos, a protected monument that carries the island's long story in a single quiet spot. The ground beneath and around it was inhabited in the Bronze Age, when Thermi flourished as a significant port settlement in the third millennium BCE, and the area remained alive through archaic, classical, Hellenistic, and Roman times. The fountain itself belongs to the modern era, its Neoclassical lines set against layers of far older history.