Agios Georgios-Falandra
The Church of Saint George at Falandra is a fortified ecclesiastical relic, standing beside the car park for the Phaistos archaeological site on the w…
100 documented fortifications across Greece, each with real history, a location, and cited sources. A sample below; the full set travels with you offline in the Atika app.
The Church of Saint George at Falandra is a fortified ecclesiastical relic, standing beside the car park for the Phaistos archaeological site on the w…
On the steep hill called Kastri, which divides the beaches of Kouremenos and Chiona at Crete’s easternmost coast near Sitia, stood a fortress known to…
The Tower Tha stands as a scant remnant of Rhodes’ late-medieval Hospitaller period, a rectangular residential tower raised in 1477, according to Step…
Erimokastro, whose name means “abandoned castle” or “castle in solitude,” is a steep, elongated ridge rising over 400 metres in southern Rhodes, about…
On a rocky spur of the Kepoules, between Apollona and Platania and above the church of Agia Paraskevi, stand the scant ruins locals call Erimokastro. …
Kokkinokastro, the "Red Castle" of Symi, is a Byzantine fortification of uncertain date, possibly from the so-called Dark Centuries. Rather than a sin…
On a long, narrow hill called Kastrouli, about 1,400 metres north-east of Agios Floros in Messinia, lie the ruins of a fortification of genuinely unce…
The islet of Sipia, also known as Sepia, Soupia or Soupeza, is an uninhabited rocky outcrop in the Myrtoan Sea, at the eastern end of Troizinia, withi…
On a conical hill called Agia Triada, above the village of Silimna in Arcadia, five kilometres west of Tripoli, lie the scant ruins of a castle whose …
On the summit of Agia Kyriaki hill, 1065 metres up in Mount Ktenias northeast of Tripoli, lie the tumbled remains of a small dry-stone enclosure. The …
A little over a kilometre southwest of the village of Adami in Argolida, a low hilltop is ringed by the scattered remains of a dry-stone fortification…
On a low but steep hill three kilometres east-southeast of Dimaina in Argolis, Vassa offers a tangle of ruins that span two very different ages. The o…
The castle of Olena is the remnant of a substantial medieval town that once occupied a flat hilltop about a kilometre east of the modern village of Ol…
On a low hill near the village of Drassa in central Greece, the scant remains of a Byzantine fortification mark a site of refuge and control from arou…
The ruins called Kastraki sit on a hill southeast of the village of Kastelli in the Kalavryta region, facing another fortified settlement, Agios Theod…
A dry-stone fortification stands in ruins on a coastal hill west of Perama, directly opposite the Salamis naval base. Its history is entirely unknown:…
Standing in the fenced and locked compound of the Greek Archaeological Service at Agios Panteleimon, a single course of finely worked marble blocks is…
On the eastern slope of hill Lachties, in the wildlife refuge of Mount Kasteli-Blosti at the northern end of Paliki peninsula, lie the ruins of a medi…
Above Loutsa beach, on the north-eastern flank of the entrance to Vathy bay, two iron cannons sit on what look like makeshift bases. In fact they are …
On the uninhabited islet of Agios Georgios in the Gulf of Itea, near Galaxidi, stand the ruins of a small fortification with a tower. Historical sourc…
High on a rocky spur above the old settlement of Koila, at 500 metres on the island of Chios, stands what little remains of a Byzantine watchtower, th…
Chalandrokastro is a ruined medieval fortification on a rocky hill about two kilometres southwest of Agra in Lesvos, close to the road to Mesotopos. I…
The ancient city of Azoros, the best fortified of the three towns that made up the Perraivian Tripolis in northern Thessaly, sits south of the modern …
On a hill four kilometres west of the modern village of Dolichi, in the Larissa prefecture, lie the ruins of an ancient city that flourished from the …
The Provlakas tower is a faint ghost of Byzantine monastic defence, reduced to a few indistinct ruins on a low mound 1.5 kilometres southwest of Nea R…
On a steep, high hill called Agios Dimitrios, three and a half kilometres east of Theologos on Thassos, lie the scant ruins of a late Byzantine castle…
The castle at Peristerona, known locally as Kales, is a Byzantine-era ruin perched on a low hill above the southwestern shore of Lake Volvi. Its histo…
The fortification known locally as Kaleto is a faint trace on a hill southwest of Vevi in Florina, Western Macedonia, where the right bank of the Reka…
The scattered ruins of Ergani mark the site of a Byzantine fortification raised around the year 900. What survives is the outline of walls, rough maso…
On the hill of Agios Athanasios, northeast of the modern village of Gazoros in the Serres prefecture, lie the scant remains of an ancient city identif…
A long Byzantine cross-wall strides across the plain between Koptero and Amaxades in Rhodope, running 2,300 metres from the castle city of Anastasioup…
The remnants of Ierapetra's Byzantine fortification are among the few traces of the city's early medieval past, and they survive only as broken sectio…
On the summit of Mount Atavyros, Rhodes’ highest peak at 1,216 metres, the ruins of a Byzantine fortified monastery stand above the remnants of a far …
The rock above the Myrtoan Sea was first fortified in the 9th century, when the Byzantines established a naval observatory there to keep watch over Sa…
On a hill on the eastern flank of Taygetos, above the Eurotas valley and northeast of modern Dafni, lie the scattered remains of Lykovouno, a Byzantin…
Irokastro is a dry-stone fortification in ruins, occupying the entire plateau of a steep, rocky hill on the south side of Naxos, just north of Panormo…
The Castle of Kalogeros is a sprawling Byzantine ruin crowning a steep, 355-metre peak above Apollonas on Naxos’s north-eastern coast. Its slopes rema…
The castle at Thermisi, three kilometres north of the village of the same name, stands on two rocky outcrops, with a third, smaller rock nearby left u…
On a steep limestone outcrop rising from the softer hills of the Ermionida hinterland, the scant ruins of Mylorema keep watch over the Gulf of Hydra a…
High on a peak of Mount Lycaion, at 1,325 metres, the scant ruins of this small fortress look out over the Neda valley. It stands near the old border …
East of the village of Raftis in Gortynia, a cave holds a chapel to Agios Taxiarchis and a rough ring of defensive walls. Such Peloponnesian caves had…
Perched on a rocky crag at 810 metres on the ridge of Mount Atheras, in the north-east of Ikaria, Kapsalino remains a puzzle. No record survives of wh…
Palaiokastro stands on a rocky hill above the northwestern coast of Icaria, a medieval fortification of uncertain origin and chronology. Its position …
On the hill called Palaiokastro, three kilometres north-east of Servos in Gortynia, western Arcadia, lie the ruins of a fortified medieval settlement …
On a hill called Palaiokastro, about 1,200 metres west of the village of Daphne near Kalavryta, a few scattered stones and a short stretch of dry wall…
The ruins of Ancient Chalkis, also known as Ypochalkis, occupy the low coastal hill of Agia Triada, east of Kato Vasiliki in Aetolia. The city took it…
On a steep hill called Kastro, three kilometres west of Galaxidi in Phocis, stands a dry-stone fortification of unknown date and origin. Only the west…
A small Venetian outpost, probably raised in the fifteenth century, sits on a steep rock on the northern flank of Mount Varasova in Aitoloakarnania, a…
The ancient acropolis of Pandosia crowns a hill above the village of Kastri, near Parga, its ruins now all that remain of a city with a long and varie…
The hill of Strongylovouni, just south of the village of Vlochos and four kilometres north of Palamas in Karditsa, carries extensive ruins of fortific…
The castle of Oria stands on a high rock above the Vale of Tempi, on the flank of Mount Ossa and near the spring of Aphroditi. What survives is only a…
The castle of Petra clings to a steep rock at Karakoli, near the 23rd kilometre of the Katerini-Ellassona road, 1.5 km south of Fotina and 4 km north-…
Chrysopolis, a Byzantine port city that rose to prominence after the tenth century, occupied a lagoon at the Strymonas river delta, close to Amphipoli…
The site called Loggos is the surviving lower quarter of ancient Edessa in central Macedonia, a rare remnant of a city that otherwise retreated uphill…
The ruins known as the Castle of Sfelinos sit on a steep, naturally fortified hill called Grandiskos, part of the Menoikion mountain ridge in the Serr…
The name Kastrelia, from the Greek for a kastro or castle estate, points to a small Byzantine fortification whose history has been entirely lost. Its …
On the western flank of Tilos, beneath the 654-metre peak of Profítis Ilías, lies Paliokastro, a fortified Byzantine settlement of the so-called Dark …
On the summit of Prophitis Elias, a 1,006-metre peak in the Kontovounia range, lie the tumbled remains of a small fortress of unknown date and origin.…
Paleochora, a Byzantine castle-city some thirty kilometres south of Tripoli, stands in ruins on a mountainside, a kilometre from the Monastery of Agio…
On a low hill three kilometres west of Vourvoura in Arcadia, close to the church of the Ascension, stand the scant remains of what was once a substant…
Franchthi is a dry-stone fortification on a coastal hill opposite the village of Koilada in Argolida, its history otherwise unknown. The style of cons…
On a low hill overlooking the fields between the village of Fournoi in Argolis and the sea, some two kilometres away, stand the scant remains of a dry…
On the hill of Agios Ioannis, southeast of the village of Tselepakos in Arcadia, a few broken stones are all that remain of what was once a tower. Thi…
The hill called Skoupitsa, a kilometre east of Paleo Paos on the Patra to Tripolis road, carries the remnants of an ancient acropolis that later found…
On a low hill 1,700 metres southwest of the village of Kaisari, in the Corinth region, stands the ruin of a tower that has almost entirely surrendered…
On a low hill five hundred metres south-west of the village of Pasi, a few broken stones are all that remain of a medieval tower. The site overlooks t…
The ruins of Aspropyrgos are not much to look at now, but they gave their name to an entire district. A Frankish tower, built in the thirteenth or fou…
On a low hill west of Paleochori, near Mandra in western Attica, stand the scant remains of a tower that was almost square in plan. Its base measures …
Near the Great Marsh, where the Persian dead are said to have been thickest after the battle of Marathon in 490 BC, stands a scatter of ruined stone t…
On the islet of Trizonia, a small community of 64 people in the Corinthian Gulf, a low hill called Palaiokastro, meaning old castle, carries the remna…
The ruins at Vlacherna belong to an ancient stone tower, likely raised in the third or fourth century BC, during the era of the Aetolian League, which…
Fidokastro is the remnant of a Byzantine fortification, probably raised in the 9th century, at the mouth of the Arachthos river where it meets the Amb…
On the neck of a peninsula west of Vourvourou in Chalkidiki, north of the settlement Galini, stands the scant remnant of a small medieval fortificatio…
The few surviving stones of this late Byzantine castle sit on a low rise at a spot called Melissa or Paliokastro, in the Maria valley on Thassos, just…
On a wooded low hill called Paliokastro, meaning old castle, about 1.5 kilometres west of Lachanas in the northern Thessaloniki prefecture, stand the …
On a low hill just southeast of the village of Aisymi in Evros, a small Byzantine fort survives only as a few scattered remains. The structure measure…
On a hill called Kulata, meaning castle, about a kilometre and a half east of Oreini in the Serres prefecture, stand the scant remains of a mountain f…
At the northwestern tip of Gavdos, a conical rock rises about 120 metres above the sea near Cape Kefali, and on its summit lie the scant remains of a …
Mesokastela, whose name translates as “in the middle of castles,” is a natural fortress in ruins, occupying a plateau shielded by four rocks. Two of t…
Southwest of Ano Moulia, near Gortyna, stands one of the small forts the Ottomans called koules, raised in 1867 or shortly after. It belongs to a seri…
The Koules of Plakia is a small Ottoman fortification set on a hill above the south coast of Rethymno prefecture, commanding a fine view over the Liby…
The small Ottoman fort of Mikros Koules stands on the mountain slope above the fishing port of Loutro, on Crete's south coast, and its remains are in …
A small Ottoman fortification, built in 1867 or shortly afterwards, stands atop a hill south of Fodele in Crete. Its purpose was straightforward: to k…
On the hill of Piliokastro, nearly two kilometres east-northeast of Kattavia, the southernmost village of Rhodes, stands a Byzantine castle of uncerta…
Perched at the southwestern tip of Kos, the small coastal fortress of Kastelli Kefalou once kept watch over the strait between Nisyros and Kefalos. A …
Zarax began as an ancient city and kept its life through the Roman and Byzantine eras, a quiet continuity that its stones still record. What remains t…
The castle at Kokkinies is a dry-stone fortification in ruins, perched on a mountain peak northeast of the castle of Silimna in Arcadia. The peak and …
The cave of Agia Rousali sits in a deserted, rocky corner of Argolis, eight kilometres west of Argos and a short scramble from the villages of Vrousti…
The medieval fortification at Krinofyta stands as a quiet reminder of an era when defensive walls and towers rose across the Greek countryside, often …
On a rocky promontory above the beach at Tsakaioi, on Euboea's southeastern Aegean shore, stand the scant remains of a fortified settlement from the e…
Ruins of a medieval fortification, probably Genoese and dating perhaps from the 14th or 15th century, stand on a coastal hill on the north coast of Ch…
At the top of a small hill above the village of Kastri stands a fortification of which almost nothing is known. Its construction date is guessed to be…
A small Turkish outpost, now reduced to rather poor remains, stands near the Agrilos lagoon, part of the Ambracian gulf, some 700 metres from the wate…
The Diakopi cross-wall is a dry stone barrier thrown across the isthmus of the Trikeri peninsula, at the western end of Mount Tisaion. It dates from t…
A small Turkish outpost from 1832, this fort stands in the Platy district on the road from Komboti to Floriada, among the mountain villages of the Art…
Stroggylokastro, whose name comes from the round, cylindrical tower on its northern side, is a Turkish fortress raised by Rasif Pasha in the early 160…
Polyneri, also known as Koutsi, is a rare instance of a place inhabited continuously from the Paleolithic era to the present day. On the eastern side …
On a sandy spit at Trani Ammouda beach, near the village of Agios Nikolaos in Chalkidiki, stand the rather poor remains of a small Byzantine fortified…
The Diatichisma, a cross-wall of uncertain but likely early Byzantine date, runs for roughly 250 metres along the hill of Palia Pyli, east of Kavala a…
The ruins of a substantial but unidentified medieval castle stand on a wooded hill three kilometres north-north-west of Melanthio village in Kilkis pr…
Every one on a single offline map that pings you when you are near.
Short, true stories of overlooked heritage sites, drawn from the Atika atlas. Free, no spam.