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Modern Description: The small port of Sígri was mostly an Ottoman creation and conserves several remains from the period of Turkish rule—an inscribed marble fountain-front in the centre of the village, the ruins of an Ottoman hamam, and the church of Aghia Triada above the harbour whose wide four-square form and orientation show it clearly to be a converted mosque. The once open-arched porch of the mosque on the west side was probably filled in when the building was turned into a church. The town's finest monument is its sombre, pentagonal castle, guarding the harbour, with an imposing Osmanli inscription and the Imperial tuğra of Mustafa III, carved on a well-preserved marble plaque over the gateway. The gates themselves are a rare example of surviving wooden doors revetted in iron, dating from the 18th century. The castle is entered through a procession of arches—the outer ones conceived in different colours of local stone. The building dates from 1757, a time when the Ottoman administration favoured the development of this remote port as a trading entrepot on the open-sea route from the southern Aegean to the Dardanelles and the capital.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigron
Wikidata ID: Q65121169

Info: McGilchrist's Greek Islands

(From McGilchrist’s Greek Islands, © Nigel McGilchrist 2010, excerpted with his gracious permission. Click for the books)

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