Castello Angioino di Vastogiradi

The Castello Angioino di Vastogiradi is a fortified village, not a single castle, its irregular plan clinging to a hilltop. An intact curtain wall encloses a broad courtyard, with two gates: one for carts, leading out of the settlement, and another for pedestrians, linking it to the town below. The horizontal line of the walls is broken by three towers on the northern front. One, guarding the cart gate, has a polygonal base; the other two are circular. To the south, the parish church is preceded by a portico. The housing within is a sequence of terraced houses, often with a semi-basement for a cellar. The ground floor is typically for storage or workshops, larger buildings have warehouses, while the upper floors are residential, with no differentiation of function. It is a practical, defensible arrangement, typical of the medieval fortified hilltop settlements of this region: a place where daily life was lived in the shadow of military necessity.

Description via source. Coordinates and heritage data from the Atika atlas.