Castle
Castle of Santo Niceto
🇮🇹 Italy
The Castle of Sant'Aniceto (also San Niceto) is a Byzantine castle built in the early 11th century on a hill in Motta San Giovanni, now in the province of Reggio Calabria, southern Italy.
It is one of the few examples of High Middle Ages architecture in Calabria, as well as one of the few well-preserved Byzantine fortifications in the world. The name derives from that of Saint Nikitas, a Byzantine admiral who lived in the 7th-8th centuries.
Text adapted from “Castle of Sant'Aniceto” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Castle of Santo Niceto ranks #2,916 of 3,691 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #243 of the 288 mapped in Italy. See how Italy compares in the castle statistics.
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