Trikeri

The Diakopi cross-wall is a dry stone barrier thrown across the isthmus of the Trikeri peninsula, at the western end of Mount Tisaion. It dates from the Greek War of Independence, built shortly after 1821 by the inhabitants of Trikeri, a place long treated as an island in all but name. Its road link to the rest of Pelion only arrived in 1970, and in the early nineteenth century the community prospered through shipping, with shipyards and a large merchant fleet. After the revolution was suppressed elsewhere in Pelion, resistance continued here, and this wall was raised to block Turkish approach by land. A commemorative plaque records that in 1823 the Greeks repelled an attack by Kioutachi Pasha at this very point. The structure runs in three sections, between 1.4 and 2.0 metres thick, now surviving to a maximum height of 1.50 metres but almost complete in length. Square towers project towards Mount Tisaion at intervals, and the masonry is of medium stones with smaller packing, no mortar used anywhere.