Greece · 13th century
The Castle of Paleochora (Modern Greek: Κάστρο Σελίνου; Italian: Castel Selino), also known as the castle of Paleóchora (Modern Greek: Κάστρο Παλαιοχώρας), is a Venetian castle located in the village of Paleóchora, on the island of Crete, Greece.
Machine-translated from “Château de Sélino” on the French Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Castle of Paleochora ranks #8,461 of 9,035 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #101 of the 133 mapped in Greece. Founded 1282, it is older than 64% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 1090 atlas entries founded in the 13th century. See how Greece compares in the castle statistics.
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