Trigonion Tower
Round Ottoman-era artillery tower wrapped around a Byzantine core, with views to the gulf and Olympus.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Trigonion Tower in Thessaloniki opens on a spring dawn in fourteen thirty, with Ottoman troops under Sultan Murad the Second climbing a neglected stretch of the eastern walls. From there it follows a question of military engineering: what do you build once gunpowder makes the old walls obsolete? You'll hear about the Byzantine tower hidden inside this one, and why scholars still argue over its age. Stand on the slope beside the tower to take in its lopsided bulk.
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