Monument of Colonel Svoronos

This is near the site of the final conflict between the Greek and Turkish armies during the liberation of Katerini. In this battle, which took place on 15-16 October 1912, Colonel Dimitrios Svoronos, who was an aristocrat from the island of Cephalonia, Lieutenant Colonel Dimitrios Nikas, and a 17-year-old volunteer from Crete named Kontaxakis were killed. The monument that was erected in honour of the heroes is located outside Neokesaria, just before the village’s plane forest (Platanodasos).