Italy · 13th century
The Castle and Towers of Balio are a medieval military fortification in Erice, with an adjoining garden. Both the towers and the gardens take their name from the Norman "baiulo," meaning governor.
Machine-translated from “Castello del Balio” on the Italian Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Balio Towers ranks #7,892 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #547 of the 560 mapped in Italy. Founded c. 1300, it is older than 61% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 1080 atlas entries founded in the 13th century. 2 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. It is one of the 32 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Sicily. See how Italy compares in the castle statistics.
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