Mon, Apr 20, 2020
Byzantine tower belonging to St. Paul’s Monastery in Nea Fokea, Halkidiki. It is the only tower of Halkidiki that is preserved up to the battlements. Next to the tower is the church of the Holy Apostles.
In 1407 Ioannis Palaiologos granted the area of the present village to the monastery of Agios Pavlos of Mount Athos. Τhe Byzantine tower, which is still preserved, was then built. The Byzantine tower guarded the great subordinate of the monastery. The tower has a base of 50 square meters, a height of 17 meters and is built with materials of ancient buildings. From the old Metohi, there is a small church built in 1868, as well as some ruins of other buildings. On the tower in 1821 Emmanouil Papas, the head of the revolution in Halkidiki, had its headquarters.