Koules Fortress, our city's emblem, our city's guard. In its current form it has been constructed in the 1500s, however at the same position a smaller fortress existed at the ancient port hundreds of years back.

Earthquakes and wars only strengthened it, creating memories for ever lost in its dark cells.

On a cloudy day like this, for some reason, I remembered the poem of the Cretan War - dramatically described by the Cretan Poet Marinos Bounialis. An excerpt follows below.

[...] Oh glorious Fortress, all those that survive,
do they still weep, do they still pine for you? [...]

[...] Ὤ, Κάστρο μου περίδοξο, τάχατες ὅσοι ζοῦνε,
τάχατες νὰ σὲ κλαίσινε καὶ νὰ σ’ ἀναζητοῦνε; [...]

Μαρίνος Τζανέ Μπουνιαλής , Ο κρητικός πόλεμος (1645-1669), Στιγμή, Αθήνα, 1995
(source: koules.efah.gr - retrieved Dec 2019)

Learn more about the Cretan War: https://www.instagram.com/tv/B5wyih0nUXG/

I wish you a wonderful Sunday
I will be most of the day away today, but these thoughts flooded my mind earlier..

See you soon!

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