Must See Castles in Greece
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Acropolis
Ancient citadel featuring iconic Greek temples and ruins, recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage site.
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Koules
The Koules or Castello a Mare is a fortress located at the entrance of the old port of Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
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Fortezza Fortress
The Fortezza is the citadel of the city of Rethymno in Crete, Greece. It was built by the Venetians in the 16th century, and was captured by…
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Palace of Phaistos
Phaistos, also transliterated as Phaestos, Festos and Latin Phaestus, is a Bronze Age archaeological site at modern Faistos, a municipality…
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Angelokastro Castle
Angelokastro is a Byzantine castle on the island of Corfu,Greece. It is located at the top of the highest peak of the island's shoreline in…
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Castle of Monolithos
Monolithos is a Greek village on the island of Rhodes, South Aegean region, belonging to the municipal unit of Attavyros.
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Achilleion Palace
Achilleion is a palace built on Corfu for Empress Elisabeth of Austria, also known as Sisi, after a suggestion by the Austrian consul…
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Palamidi
Palamidi is a fortress to the east of the Acronauplia in the town of Nafplio in the Peloponnese region of southern Greece.
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Castle of Kritinia
Originally built on 3 levels (with each level assigned to a different Grand Master), used to be a key fortress for the knights from the…
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Knossos Palace
Knossos is the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete and has been called Europe's oldest city.Settled as early as the Neolithic…
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Methoni Castle
The Castle of Methoni is a medieval fortification in the port town of Methoni, Messenia, in southwestern Greece.
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Acronauplia
The Acronauplia is the oldest part of the city of Nafplion in Greece. Until the thirteenth century, it was a town on its own.
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Castle of Gardiki
Gardiki Castle is a 13th-century Byzantine castle on the southwestern coast of Corfu and the only surviving medieval fortress on the…
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Akrotiri Castle
Damaged in the 1956 earthquake, this castle used to be a powerful fort for the Gozzadini family until it fell to the Turks in 1617.
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Chlemoutsi castle
Chlemoutsi, also known as Clermont, is a medieval castle in the northwest of the Elis regional unit in the Peloponnese peninsula of…
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Platamonas Castle
The Platamon Castle, an important part of the history of Pieria, is a Crusader castle in Macedonia, Greece and is located southeast of…
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Palace of Nestor
The Palace of Nestor was an important centre in Mycenaean times, and described in Homer's Odyssey and Iliad as Nestor's kingdom of "sandy…
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Izzedin Fortress
The Izzeddin Fortress is an Ottoman fortress in Souda Bay, Crete, near the village of Kalami, best known for its role as a prison for…
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Trikala Castle
The Trikala Castle is the Byzantine-era citadel of the city of Trikala in western Thessaly, Greece.
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