Mon, Apr 20, 2020
The Stavronikita Tower (also called ‘St. George-Tower’ is the landmark of the Sani area. It was constructed 1543 in order to protect the Monastery of Stavronikita. The tower is in an excellent state of repair, it is 8 meters high, but the archaeologists believe that an upper floor is missing, and the original tower was much taller. It belongs to the category of smooth external towers with simple exterior structure. It is well built with a strong careful masonry in which sporadic and naughty pieces of bricks and ceramics are inserted.
In its original form, the tower had at least three floors and at the top there was a roof with ramparts and loopholes. It is not excluded that there was a chapel on the roof. Today only two floors and an underground space are preserved, and underneath it there is still an underground area that probably was a reservoir of water but it is now piled. In the interior, floors with wooden floors have been formed, which, with some wear, have been preserved to this day.