It is funny how sometimes, when I live for years next to an attraction, like an archeological site, a landmark or even a night club, I never visit it, no matter how much I want to. And then I move away, and somehow the universe aligns and I find myself inside that very attraction, that I never saw from up close, all those years that I was living next to it!
And it keeps happening over the years in numerous occasions. Like a repetitive pattern of my life.
This little castle is one of those occasions.
It is called Kazarma and it is the only building surviving from the Venetian era of Sitia. An era that ended with the total destruction of the town and the abandonment of it, for more than two centuries.
For sure it is not the most impressive castle of Greece, far from it. Actually it is just a fortified plot, within the town's limits, that used to house the guard. Nevertheless, I wanted to see it as the last remain of a whole era.
Until two years ago, I was living in the area for nearly a decade, and yet it was just this week that I had the opportunity to get inside. And totally by chance. I was visiting the town and I was randomly wandering around when a bulldozer blocked my way. I walked uphill to avoid it and without realizing it, I was in front of Kazarma. And within the visiting hours too!
Of course, I had to get in :)
On my way out, I stopped for a while, looking at the modern town and the sea, imagining all the pirates and the invaders that sailed into that same bay, craving to conquer and loot this little piece of the island.
Many of them quite successfully!
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