Greece · 10th century
The Castle of Temenos (Modern Greek: Φρούριο Τεμένους), also known as Rókka (Modern Greek: Ρόκκα < Italian: Rocca), castle of Nikephoros Phokas (Modern Greek: Κάστρο Νικηφόρου Φωκά), or Kanlí Kastéli (Κανλί Καστέλι), is a fortress on the island of Crete, in Greece. It is situated in the municipality of Heraklion, near the village of Profítis Ilías, at a distance of about 18 km south of the city of Heraklion. Temenos is considered the most important fortress of the Byzantine period in Crete.
Machine-translated from “Forteresse de Témenos” on the French Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Castle of Temenos ranks #7,973 of 9,035 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #93 of the 133 mapped in Greece. Founded c. 1000, it is older than 91% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 192 atlas entries founded in the 10th century. 4 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. See how Greece compares in the castle statistics.
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