Above the Old Town is Chora’s citadel, built by the Venetian Duke of the Archipelago Marco II Sanudo in the 13th century.
Still partly guarded by Medieval walls, the Kastro is a peaceful maze of little flowery squares linked by narrow alleys that have monasteries, churches and noble mansions, some still bearing their coats of arms.
If you enter the Kastro via the northern Trani Porta gate you can see the official measure for merchants selling fabrics, etched into a marble pilaster.
