Mon, Apr 20, 2020
There are many stories and myths about Galatista Tower that nowadays, have become legends! One of them says that a queen named "Galatia" lived in the tower and that's how the village took its name after. She used to communicate through an underground pine that leads to the area of Agia Paraskevi in the fields.
The tower is definitely built in Venetian style but it’s not Venetian. It is not known when it was built exactly. Perhaps in the early 15th century. It can therefore be described as a ’’post-Byzantine’’. Imposing, narrow, with recesses on its outer walls and small vertical slots for windows, the Galatistas Tower is obviously a fortress-observatory that communicated with the plain and its villages and is also likely to be used as a prison. It is made of solid stone and clay (the so-called taran or kurashani) and has a dark brown color. When there was still a forest around, it is said that only from a distance one could find it!