Tower of Aliartos

The Tower of Aliartos or Tower of Moulki is a late medieval

The tower is almost square, measuring 7.8 metres (26 ft) by 7.9 metres (26 ft) at its base,[1]^[2] with a thickness of 1.65 metres (5.4 ft) at its base.^[3] The tower is preserved at a height of c. 15 metres (49 ft).^[3] It is built of hewn stone, mostly undressed but relatively regular; only the

The tower had four floors. On the ground floor is a chamber some 3.5 metres (11 ft) on each side, covered by a semicircular arch. The two middle floors have each eight window slits, two on each wall, while the top floor was covered by a vault reinforced by a double arch, now collapsed.[1] There is an opening at the base, but it is of modern creation; the original gate seems to have been located well above the ground, on the second floor level, on the tower's southern face; the existence of putlog holes suggests that a wooden staircase was affixed.^[3][4]

A number of caves exist at the edge of the cliff on which the tower sits, but it is unknown whether they are medieval, and possibly related to the tower, or of more recent date, the result of lime-burning.^[3]

It is variously regarded as part of a late Byzantine defence system along the Copais and the

Sources

• Bon, Antoine (1937). "Forteresses médiévales de la Grèce centrale". Bulletin de correspondance hellénique (in French). 61: 136–208.
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• Koder, Johannes; Hild, Friedrich (1976). Tabula Imperii Byzantini, Band 1: Hellas und Thessalia (in German). Vienna:
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• Lock, Peter (1986). "The Frankish Towers of Central Greece". The Annual of the British School at Athens. 81: 101–123.
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