Above: The top floor (roof) of the Koules Fortress (Castello a Mare).
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1 and 2 show the main hall and cannon ball storage room in the Koules Fortress.
3 is a view of the old port harbour from the Koules Fortress roof.
4 is the monument to dolphins by the old port.
5 is a view along the pedestrian street 25 Avgoustou.
6 to 8 are views inside the Church of Agios Titos, formerly a 19th-century mosque, now a Greek Orthodox church dedicated to St. Titus.
The original church on the site was built 961 AD, converted to a Catholic church by the Venetians and turned into a mosque by the Ottomans,
who used the bell tower as a minaret. It has been an Orthodox church since 1925.
9 ... since 1966, the church's most revered possession is the skull relic of St. Titus, returned here after being spirited to Venice
for safe-keeping during the Turkish occupation.
10 is a lion, part of the Morosini Fountain.
11 is the history of the Phyllo Sophies café, beside the Morosini Fountain, which makes unique and delicious Greek pastries.
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