Trikala - Corinth

A few scattered stones on a slope between Ano and Mesaia Trikala are all that remains of this Frankish castle, a site whose story is almost entirely lost. Probably raised in the 13th or 14th century, it appears in Frankish records of 1450, 1467 and 1469 under names like Trechale and Tricalia, and later in the Venetian Grimani census of 1700 as Tricalla. The castle occupied a plateau beneath a large rock, covering some 1,200 square metres. Today, only the foundations of the northern and southern walls are partly visible, along with the remains of a single tower. Nothing else survives to tell of its builders or their fortunes, and even its precise origin is a matter of inference rather than record. It is a place for the patient visitor, one that rewards a quiet look at the ground rather than expecting any grandeur above it.