The statue of Maroula
According to the legend, Maroula was the daughter of Efrosini and Isidoros Komninos. On the 21st of May 1478 the Turks unleashed an attack and started climbing up on the walls. Venetians and Greeks started fighting them back, led by Maroula’s father. He soon was surrounded and mortally wounded by the Turks. The moral of the walls’ defenders declined rapidly and they started to run away. The eighteen-year-old Maroula, filled with anger, drew the bloody sword, and threw herself into battle, encouraging the rest of her co-fighters to return to their places, leading them to a great victory.
Today at the small port of Kotsinas, in the courtyard of the Sacred Temple of the Zoodochos Pigi, you are greeted by the bronze statue of Maroula, a creation of Hippocrates Savouras, which was funded by the Limnos Teaching Association in 1969.