Heptapyrgion of Thessaloniki

The Heptapyrgion sits at the highest point of Thessaloniki, a fortress of ten irregular towers that once anchored the city’s defensive walls. Within these stone walls, Ottoman administrators kept the local prison for centuries. By the late eighteen hundreds, it had become the central penitentiary for the entire region. The fortress held men like the Greek rebel Alexandros Ypsilantis, but its cells also confined poets and resistance fighters who scratched their names into the cold limestone, leaving behind a fragile, layered record of confinement.