Old city

Paliachora of Aegina is a medieval village that was built in the 9th century and was the capital of the island until 1826.Paliachora is quite reminiscent of Mystras of the Peloponnese with the Byzantine references.The houses, small, square, were built on the South-West side of the hill and started from the top of the hill, to the foothills.It was destroyed in 1537 by the Turkish pirate Hayredin Barbarossa and looted in 1654 by the Venetian admiral Francesco Morosini. The abandonment of the settlement began at the end of the 18th century, when the construction of the modern capital of the island began.