Romania · 14th century
Colț Fortress dates from the beginning of the 14th century, when it was founded by the knyaz Cândea.
Subsequently, Cândea converted to the Catholic religion and changed his name to Kendeffy.
Machine-translated from “Cetatea Colț” on the Romanian Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Colț Fortress ranks #5,727 of 9,035 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #56 of the 125 mapped in Romania. Founded c. 1325, it is older than 58% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 757 atlas entries founded in the 14th century. 4 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. 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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