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Address: 117, Omonias str., 65403, Kavala – Greece
Tel.: +30 2510 831388, +30 2510 831358
Fax.: +30 2510 831378
Email: tourism@kavalagreece.gr
Site: http://www.castle-kavala.gr/index2.html

The Acropolis was built by the Ottomans between 1425 and 1530 on the ruins of a byzantine castle. It consisted of the inner and the outer walls, which connected the acropolis to the peninsula’s walls fortifying the lower part of the hill on the side of the port.
The castle was built at a time when the war was conducted with early weapons such as bows, arrows and swords. This is why it could not defend the region sufficiently and ceased to operate as a defensive fortress in the following years. Around 1700AD it became a place of imprisonment and exile. The walls surrounding the peninsula of Panayia were reconstructed from the Ottomans at the beginning of the 16th century in order to protect the 130 hectares’ city.