Bazeos Tower

In the interior of Naxos, 12 km from the island's main town, the Bazeos Tower, formerly the monastery of the Holy Cross, dominates the plain of Agiassos. It is built at the foot of the mountain Profitis Ilias near the ruins of an older monastery, that of Kaloritsa (9th c.), and about one kilometre from the village of Sangri on Naxos. Because of its imposing form and its position at a key point on the road linking the town of Naxos (Chora) with Chalki on Naxos and the beach of Agiassos, the tower is among the most recognisable post-Byzantine monuments of the island and is particularly popular for the cultural events hosted in its spaces every summer.

Machine-translated from “Πύργος Μπαζαίου” on the Greek Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Bazeos Tower ranks #7,790 of 8,134 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #107 of the 134 mapped in Greece. 1 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. See how Greece compares in the castle statistics.

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