The small octagonal domed church of San Rocco (St Roch) was erected in 1595 on the Ruga Magistra (at the junction of 25th August Martyrs Avenue and Vyronos Street), in honour of the French nobleman and saint (1295–1327), in thanksgiving for the city’s deliverance from the devastating plague of 1592. After the Ottoman conquest, it was converted into a bathhouse, and in 1928 it was demolished to make way for a neoclassical building.