Oria

An event commemorating the deaths of 4,100 captive Italian WWII soldiers on the Norwegian steamship Oria will be held this Sunday at 11 a.m., 76 years after the major naval tragedy, at the 60th km of Athens-Sounio coastal road.

On Sunday at 11 a.m., the Italian Embassy will hold a ceremony at the memorial on the Athens-Sounio road to commemorate the more than 4,000 Italian prisoners of war who perished on the SS Oria off Cape Sounio on February 12, 1944, as they were being shipped to Nazi death camps.

The steamboat went down in a storm and its wreck was discovered by a Greek diver in 1999.

Stunning images of Kampia Canyon and the Castle of Oria in northern Chios are shown in a video provided by Panayotis Tzanetis.

The castle of Oria is located on an elevated rock, where the chapel of Agia Paraskevi overlooks the gorge of Kambia, as Chioswalking.gr mentions.