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An Ottoman tower-house from around the 18th century, this building stands in the Chalepa district of Chania, Crete, and once belonged to the Turkish A…
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An Ottoman tower-house from around the 18th century, this building stands in the Chalepa district of Chania, Crete, and once belonged to the Turkish A…
Standing alone in the countryside near Marathos in eastern Mani, this Byzantine tower bears the name of a later owner, Kyriakos Papadodemas. It is a s…
The towers of Flomochori in the Mani peninsula are exceptional examples of defensive housing dating from the 17th and 18th centuries. The most impress…
On the east coast of the Messenian peninsula, near modern Koroni where the ancient city of Asine once flourished, stands a Byzantine circular tower. I…
On the sixth kilometre of the coastal road from Apollonas to Chora, above the monastery of Panagia, stands the tower of Agia. Built in the first half …
On the island of Samos, the Sarakini Tower rises as a quiet reminder of Byzantine defensive strategy, a structure built to watch over the land and its…
The Lachana Tower rises above the landscape near Vathy on Samos, a Byzantine fortification that recalls the island's medieval defensive architecture. …
Chartzani Tower stands as a ruined Byzantine relic in the hills north of Karystos on Evia, its name tied to a local legend of Queen Chartzana, a Byzan…
The Vigla of Livadia is one of the cylindrical watchtowers that once formed a defensive ring around the coast of Chios, built during the Genoan occupa…
The Tower of Yusuf Agha rises in Dafni, in the Nafpaktia region of Aetolia-Acarnania, a sturdy Byzantine tower whose stones carry centuries of use. It…
In the village of Vasiliko on Euboea stands a Venetian tower that has recently been renovated and remains in good condition. It dates from the late 14…
The tower at Gymno, in central Evia, is a modest Venetian relic from the 15th century, standing beside the village’s main church. It belongs to a peri…
The Tower of Pirama stands above the small village of the same name, four kilometres north of Volissos on the island of Chios. It is a Genoese constru…
Standing alone beyond the village that takes its name from it, Pyrgos Tower is a solitary Frankish relic in a landscape that has otherwise forgotten i…
The Tower and Settlement of Markou, also known as "Ta Markou" or Tamarkou, stands as a deserted medieval village in the southern part of Chios, near t…
The Vigla of Cape Vamvakas stands on the north-eastern coast of Chios, near Kardamyla, where it once commanded the Arginousa strait and watched over s…
The square medieval tower at the centre of Politika village, in Evia, is a sturdy Frankish construction dating from the thirteenth century. Its precis…
In the olive groves near Ambeliko on Lesbos, a square stone tower rises above the trees, a weathered survivor of the Byzantine era. Built in 1830, it …
The Tower of Ali Pasha, known locally as the Koulia of Paramythia, is a late Ottoman defensive residence built at the end of the eighteenth century. I…
The Pampoura Tower stands as a Byzantine defensive structure in the Tempi area of Larissa, a remnant of the region’s medieval fortifications. It refle…
This tower is a late Byzantine remnant, one of more than seventy such defences raised to protect the dependencies, or metochia, of the Mount Athos mon…
Kotsakios Tower is a ruin with a story that outlives its stones. Built between 1259 and 1283, it was one of more than seventy defensive towers guardin…
At the edge of a stream, where a small park holds the church of Agios Christophoros, stand the sparse remains of a Late Byzantine tower. Approached fr…
The Tower of Maro stands in a sorry state among the fields of Dafni, a small village in central Macedonia, its ruins speaking of a remarkable resident…
Near the village of Kritsa, ten kilometres west of Agios Nikolaos and known for its fine olive oil, the site called Ambela holds the scant remains of …
The Vardiola of Avlemon is a compact Venetian watchtower, known locally as a vardiola, standing at the small port of Avlemonas on the island of Kythir…
The Goulas, or Pyrgos, stands near the traditional settlement of Kastelli in Emporio, Santorini’s largest village, some twelve kilometres from Fira. T…
The Glezos Tower, also known as the Crispi Tower, is the sole survivor of the twelve perimeter towers that once guarded the castle of Naxos, and it re…
A lone medieval tower, reduced to a ruin about three metres high, stands on a naturally defensible hill above the chapel of Agia Paraskevi, eight kilo…
A late Byzantine tower-house stands on the same hill as the great Frankish castle of Karytaina, though outside its walls and built at least a century …
On a low rocky hill above the chapel of Agios Demetrios, in the Trapouria district of eastern Attica, stand the scant remains of a ruined tower. The s…
At Adrianou Street in Plaka, a single, rather poor tower survives as a relic of Byzantine Athens. It is the remnant of a fortification traditionally a…
A tower house stands about 500 metres from the village of Zarouchla in Achaea, close to the deserted monastery of Agia Triada, or Holy Trinity. The ch…
The tower of Tatiza is a Frankish ruin on a low hill between Xironomi and Neochori in Boeotia, dating from the 13th or 14th century. It is one of the …
The Koulas of Chios is a peculiar tower standing near the northeastern wall of the island's main castle, yet it feels curiously detached from its surr…
On a low hill north of Efpalion in Phocis stand the ruins of a Turkish tower house, probably built towards the end of the 18th century. Locally it is …
On the islet of Ktyponisi, just off the beach at Panagitsa-Drosia near Chalkida, a ruined tower stands among scant traces of a long, odd history. The …
On a hill south of Atalanti in Central Greece, the ruined tower known as Palaiopyrgos keeps a wide watch over the surrounding countryside, all the way…
On a hill above the seaside hamlet of Xiropotamos, near Ierissos in Chalkidiki, stand the sorry remnants of a tower and a few monastic buildings. This…
The Madem Aga tower is the surviving administrative heart of a far older enterprise. It stands in ruins within what archaeologists now call the mediev…
The tower at Sidirokafsia is the most visible survivor of a fortified settlement that once thrived on silver and lead production. Known officially as …
The tower called Yperkalos, which is Byzantine Greek for "very beautiful", is a singular survivor within the fortress of Kavala. It is the only Byzant…
A Byzantine tower stands on the banks of the Krousovitis river, directly beneath the larger castle of Sidirokastro. Built in the early fourteenth cent…
Maroulas II is the smaller and more neglected of two surviving Venetian towers in the hill village of Maroulas, some 240 metres above sea level near R…
Maroulas, a village set at 240 metres above sea level near Rethymno in Crete, is a medieval settlement of genuine character: narrow lanes, crenellated…
Beside the working farm of Moni Panagia Amartou, founded in 1452 on a fertile Rhodian plateau, stand the ruins of a late-medieval tower. The structure…
The Tzerefochori Tower stands as a lonely remnant of a vanished settlement in the hilly country north of Faraklo, near Neapolis in Laconia. Its histor…
A Byzantine town on a slab of rock that an earthquake split from the Peloponnesian coast, reached by a single causeway, which is what its name means: …
The Kourtsouna tower is the remnant of a fortified house on a hill southeast of Agios Dimitrios and Agios Nikolaos in Western Mani, about a kilometre …
In the small Laconic village of Asimi, within the Municipality of Evrota, stands an 18th century Ottoman tower house, one of the few surviving structu…
Kastraki is a ruined ancient tower on a spur roughly 320 metres above the hamlet of Voutsani, itself about 800 metres from Rina, the easternmost villa…
On the island of Lesbos, the Tower of Agha stands as a solid, four-square Ottoman tower-house dated to 1706. It is a rare surviving example of a forti…
A square tower, reduced to little more than a stump, stands on a low hill above the village of Pournarokastro, at the foot of Mount Panachaikon, not f…
The Aga Tower stands as a ruined medieval remnant on a slight rise among the fields, two kilometres northeast of Erythres, the old Kriekouki, near the…
Standing a short distance from Varnavas in eastern Attica, this Frankish tower dates from the 13th or 14th century and forms part of a wider defensive…
Standing six hundred metres northeast of the village of Dafnonas on Chios, the tower at Lavrina is a rather poor medieval tower house, one of several …
About a hundred metres from the church of Agia Paraskevi, on a hillside three kilometres north of Dafnonas in Chios, stands a medieval tower house of …
In the middle of Sidirounda, a hilltop village on Chios, stands a medieval tower opposite the church of Agios Georgios. Local tradition remembers it a…
The Kleisoura tower, also known as the Kazarma, stands as a rather poor ruin on a low hill just south of Frangouleika, above the Rio-Agrinio road at t…
The village of Kadi takes its name from a tower, not the other way around. At the centre of the settlement, beside the church, stands a Venetian tower…
The Muhtarina is a tumbledown Ottoman tower house, now reduced to poor ruins, standing on a low hill among olive groves on the northern shore of Lake …
The tower at Madamia stands south of the modern village of Polydroso, close to the Xerias torrent, and survives only as a ruin. Its construction date …
On the southeastern tip of Skorpios, the small Ionian islet off Lefkada, stands a ruined tower of uncertain age, probably built around the sixteenth c…
Near the village of Vasilika in northern Evia, about 700 metres from the sea, stands a square tower of roughly five metres per side. Only its lower tw…
On the islet of Agioleni, inside the bay of Sagiada in Epirus and close to the salt pans, stands the ruined remnant of a substantial cylindrical tower…
The “Towers of Fisini” are the scant remains of a fortification of uncertain date on the south-eastern coast of Lemnos, roughly 1.5 kilometres north o…
On a low, smooth hill some 500 metres northeast of Tsimandria on Lemnos stand the ruins of a tower that has outlived every record of its own making. T…
Built in 1744, Poulcheria is a square stone tower that stands as a compact reminder of Ottoman-era Greece. Structures like this served practical purpo…
Above the port of Nea Kallikrateia in Chalkidiki, beside the road, lie the scant foundations of a Byzantine tower. Its origins are uncertain, but the …
The Tower of Milutin stands as a dependency of the great Chilandarion Monastery on Mount Athos, a 45-metre example of Late-Byzantine military architec…
Pyrgoudia is a Byzantine tower, raised in the early thirteenth century as a dependency of the Athonite monastery of Iviron. Its purpose was twofold: t…
The tower at Gomati is a late Byzantine ruin, probably raised in the fourteenth century, and one of the many defensive structures that once guarded th…
The Marmari tower stands on a hill between the town of Amfipolis and the river Strymon, looking out over the archaeological site of Amphipolis. It was…
Out in the fields three kilometres east of Efkarpia, near the west bank of the Strymon, stand the rather poor ruins of a large tower. It is not mentio…
On a low hill two and a half kilometres southwest of Mavrolofos in the Serres prefecture, the scant remains of a Byzantine tower mark the site of the …
On a rocky hill east of Kavala, overlooking the modern National Road near the 477th kilometre, stands a tower that now carries a painted Greek flag on…
The Byzantine tower at Dikili-Tash stands ruined on a low hill at the southeastern edge of Krinides, north of Kavala, within a far older archaeologica…
Above the abandoned village of Kleidi, formerly Rupel, a ruined Byzantine tower keeps a lonely watch over the Strymonas valley. The structure, a recta…
At the Achaia Clauss Winery in Patras, this neoclassical tower forms part of an industrial complex dating to 1861, a striking piece of Greece's modern…
The Achaia Clauss Winery Tower rises above the historic industrial complex in Patras, a landmark of Greek winemaking since 1861. As part of the Achaia…
In the town of Daulia, in the Boeotia region, a neoclassical clock tower stands as a civic landmark, a stone structure with a simple belfry that still…
Standing on Hermou Street in Komotiní, this neoclassical clock tower dates to 1884, when the city was developing along late nineteenth-century lines a…
The Railway Station Water Tower Complex at Paranesti in Drama stands as a neoclassical reminder of the age of steam, built to supply water to the loco…
The Konaki is a small, detached fortification standing below the hilltop Castello Rosso, above the harbour of Kastellorizo. It was probably raised in …
The ruin known locally as Kástro or Anáktora, meaning castle or palace, stands on a small, partly eroded hill above the farmlands near Dimiliá, on the…
The fortified complex of the warlord Sklavounakos stands to the south of the village Pyrgos Dirou in Eastern Mani, a relic of the revolutionary year 1…
The Tsikouriou tower stands west and above the village of Ageranos in Mani, a tower-complex noticeably larger than the region's usual examples and car…
On the hilltop above Karyoupolis, in the Mani, stands the Kosonakos tower, a sturdy tower house raised in the first years after the Greek Revolution o…
The Leventaina tower-house stands on the western slope of the hill beneath the castle of Karytaina, a three-storey fortified mansion typical of the po…
The tower of Lykourgos Logothetis dates from 1824, the work of the man himself, who served as the chief of Samos during the Greek Revolution and lived…
A pair of stone towers flanks the southwestern approach to the monastery of Prousos, with a matching counterpart on the road from the east. Both clear…
The Kokoslis tower-house dates from the closing years of the seventeenth century, when it rose in the middle of a property first held by Turkish owner…
A lonely Venetian tower-house stands in open countryside about two and a half kilometres south-east of the village of Preveliana, in the Heraklion reg…
The tower at Varsamakia stands beside the church of Agios Dimitrios, a lonely survivor from the Venetian period, probably raised in the fifteenth cent…
The small Ottoman fort at Voukolies stands southwest of the village, near the 27th kilometre of the road from Chania to Paliochora in western Crete. I…
The monastery of Agios Georgios, dedicated to Saint George, was founded in the 9th century and later abandoned, probably in the 17th, after persistent…
Built in 1829, the Grigorakakis tower is a square, three-storey tower-house whose thick stone walls and small, high-set windows made it both home and …
On the eastern side of the port at Alopronoia on Sikinos stands a lonely, ruined tower, its surviving shell rising to roughly five metres. The archaeo…
South of the village of Goranoi in Laconia, a low but steep and overgrown hill carries the rather poor ruins of a tower. Its position was chosen with …
The tower at Socha stands on a hill above the settlement of Kalivia Sohas in Laconia, seven kilometres south of Sparta, where an imposing gorge opens …
The rectangular tower at Kefalas stands as a quiet puzzle on a plateau south of the village, beside the road linking Sparta with Geraki. Its history i…
On a tall hill east of the village of Kalloni in Laconia stands a solitary late-Byzantine tower, almost square at seven metres to a side, and dating f…
Skeponi is a small, now deserted settlement in the interior of Naxos, empty since the 1970s. Among its ruins stands a square tower, clearly built as a…
On a rocky outcrop west of Anemodouri, a village in Arcadia southeast of Tripolis, stands the weathered remnant of a two-storey tower. It survives to …
The Frankish tower at Linistena, or Lynistaina, stands inside the village in Elis, a relic of the 14th century when the region was under Frankish rule…
The Voukolopyrgos is a Late Byzantine tower in a rather poor state, standing on the slopes of Mount Zavitsa, three kilometres west of Xiropigado in th…
At the entrance to the village of Iria, south of Nafplion, stands a tower house of uncertain but probable Ottoman origin, perhaps from the 18th or 19t…
On a low hill south of the village of Loukas, in the Tripoli region of Arcadia, stands the scant remnant of a medieval tower, its origins set in the 1…
On a conical hill above Anavyssos in south Attica, at a spot called Katafygi, meaning refuge, stand the ruined remains of Pyrgaki, a small tower that …
A Frankish tower in ruins stands north of the village of Roussis in Arcadia, dating from around the fourteenth century. Its square plan measures rough…
On a low hill at the northern edge of the village stands Palaiopyrgos, a Frankish tower reduced to little more than a memory. Nothing is recorded of i…
On the hill of Liada, near Markopoulo in Attica and just east of the village of Dagla, stands a Frankish tower that dates from the 13th century. It wa…
In the village of Drosopigi, near the shores of Lake Stymphalia, stands a round tower from the Ottoman period, its diameter measuring some eleven metr…
A lone tower, reduced to a broken stump of masonry, stands on a hill three kilometres west of the modern village of Kleitoria and a short distance fro…
The Frankish tower at Vravrona stands as a sturdy relic of the 13th century, raised during the years when the Burgundian De La Roche family governed t…
On the hill of Agios Ioannis, northwest of the old settlement of Kani, now Kallithea, near Kleitoria in the Kalavryta municipality of Achaea, stand th…
The ruins of a Frankish tower house stand beside the church of Agios Ioannis in Kallifonio, a mountain village roughly 15 kilometres south of Kalavryt…
On a hilltop above Levidi, close to the villa that gives the spot its modern bearings, stands a cylindrical tower of Ottoman vintage. It was likely ra…
Above the Kiphisos river at Eleusis, a ruined medieval tower squats on the crown of a Roman bridge, one of the surviving stretches of the Sacred Way t…
A tower-like structure stands within the old Benakis estate, a property that Kastrologos identifies as a medieval tower heavily reworked over the cent…
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