Chioar Fortress

Chioar Fortress (in Romanian: Cetatea Chioarului) or the fortress of Kővár (in Hungarian: Kővár vára, "castle of the stone town"), which was once the centre of the land of Chioar (Romanian țara Chioarului, Hungarian Kővárvidék) that bears its name, is located in the village of Berchezoaia, commune of Remetea Chioarului, in Transylvania.

The castle was built east of the village at the northern exit of the gorge of the river Lăpuș, at an altitude of 407 metres above sea level. The deep, gorge-shaped river valley surrounds the rocky fortress on three sides. The once famous castle is now only a ruin, whose area has been covered by vegetation.

It forms part of the Lăpuș Gorge Nature Reserve. It is a monument istoric of Romania, with the LMI code MM-I-s-A-04369. In the National Archaeological Repertory it appears with the code 108525.01.01.

Machine-translated from “Fortaleza de Chioár” on the Spanish Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Chioar Fortress ranks #6,581 of 8,133 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #68 of the 121 mapped in Romania. The nearest day-trip guide is Cluj-Napoca, 79 km away. It is one of the 78 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Transylvania. See how Romania compares in the castle statistics.

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