Museum of Chalkis

The Museum of Chalkis occupies what survives of the Venetian "Castle of Negreponte", the fortress that once guarded the city. Likely raised in the 15th century, it was completed just before the Ottomans took Chalkis in 1470, and stood at the edge of the castle moat, possibly as a defensive tower. The building became a museum in 1981, and is set on a bastion that escaped demolition, a detail best appreciated from its rear elevation. At 4 Skalkota Street, in the Agia Paraskevi quarter, it sits beside the Army's Infantry School, where further stretches of the medieval walls remain as the sides of the old moat. The structure is in relatively good condition, and while museums are not usually the concern of castle archives, this one earns its place as a tangible remnant of a formidable defensive work.