Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
& Nissí island
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Lake
Pamvótidha
Grotto of
Skylosofos
Aslan Pasha Tzamí
(Municipal Museum)
MÓLOS
A T
Ottoman
Library
Baths
KÁSTRO
Jewish
Deportation
Memorial
Silverwork
Hall
OLD JEWISH
QUARTER
Fethiye
Tzamí
INNER CITADEL
Byzantine
Museum
Taxi Rank
OLD
BAZAAR
Bus Station
3
K
O R AÏ
EATING & DRINKING
Byzantine Museum Cafe
Fysa Roufa
Limni
Paleopanos
Select
Stin Ithaki
To Manteio
Vrettanía
3
5
1
6
7
2
4
8
BAR
DISTRICT
To w n
Hall
Cathedral
ACCOMMODATION
Galaxy
Kastro
Kentrikon
Olympic
Sotiris & Evangelos Dellas
Tourist
6
2
4
5
1
3
Archeological
Museum
PLATIA
PÝRROU
Blue-and-White
City Buses
Provincial
Government
Hall
Taxi Rank
Bus Station
0
200
metres
Dodona, Préveza, Árta, Athens & Tourist Office (300m)
The inner citadel (the Its Kale)
Its Kale
daily 8am-10pm • Free •
Byzantine Museum
and
Silverwork Hall
summer Mon 12.30-7pm, Tues-Sun 8am-7pm; winter
Tues-Sun 8am-5pm • €3
Southeast of the Aslan Pasha Tzamí lies the
inner citadel
, signposted as
Its Kale
, a
transliteration of its Turkish name - a kind of fortress within the fortress. The park-like
grounds, with wonderful mountain views from this elevated spot, are occasionally used
for concerts after-hours, and there's a large and pleasant terrace café-restaurant near the
entrance, occupying the garrison's former mess.
Next to the old
Fethiye Tzamí
(“Victory Mosque”) and its slim, rocket-like minaret
- which occupy an upper corner - one of the two Ottoman graves, surmounted by an
elegant wrought-iron cage, is probably that of Ali Pasha, while the other contains his
first wife Emine and one son. The mosque itself, remodelled by Ali, was built atop the
remains of a thirteenth-century cathedral.
Next to the mosque, on the site of Ali's vanished palace, where Byron was entertained,
stands the arcaded so-called
Byzantine Museum
, a thin, largely post-Byzantine collection.
The displays comprise masonry, coins, pottery, icons and colour prints of frescoes from
various ages; the only actually Byzantine painting is a fresco fragment of
The Betrayal
.
