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Extract from the Trkala Travel Guides:
TRKALA
is quite an attractive and manageable (pop. 60,000) metropolis compared to most of Thessaly; it's evenly divided by the Lethos, a tributary of the Pinis, and backed by the mountains of the Kziakas range rising abruptly to the west. Trkala was the capital of the nineteenth-century Ottoman province and retains quite a few houses from that era, in the Varosi district below the fortress clocktower at the north end of town. Downriver from the bus station on the same bank, the
Koursoun Tzami
, a minaret-less yet very stately and recently restored sixteenth-century mosque, also survives, a graceful accompaniment to the town...
read the whole Trkala Travel Guides...
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