The chapel of Agia Marina is around 500m west of the center of the settlement of Kaki Vigla in Salamis. Next to the chapel are the remains of a building which most probably was a Frankish tower built in the era of the Duchy of Athens, some time between the 13th and 15th century.

The location is roughly at the center of the island of Salamis.

The tower is included in the list of the Frankish towers of Attica (Langdon, 1986), nr.48.

Its dimensions are 6.81 ✖ 5.18m. Only the west wall rises above ground level. Its maximum preserved height is 2.40m and its thickness is around 1m.

Like most Frankish towers in Central Greece, it was not a primarily defensive tower (probably). This is apparent also from the location. It was rather the house or administration center of the local landlord. This type of buildings, with this size, had one blind ground floor (no openings) and two floors above it. The entrance was -for safety reasons- on the first floor accessed through a wooden ladder.

The name “Kaki Vigla” means “bad watchtower”. Since there are no remains from other old towers in the vicinity, maybe this tower had been the original bad vigla. But we cannot be sure about this.

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