Greece · 15th century
The Fort of Saint Nicholas, or fortress of Agios Nikolaos or lighthouse of Agios Nikolaos (Modern Greek: φρούριο Αγίου Νικολάου), is a 15th-century fortress and a 17th-century sea lighthouse of the city of Rhodes, on the north-eastern tip of the island of Rhodes in the Aegean Sea in Greece.
Machine-translated from “Forteresse Saint-Nicolas (Rhodes)” on the French Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Fort of Saint Nicholas ranks #7,092 of 9,035 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #83 of the 133 mapped in Greece. Founded c. 1450, it is older than 46% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 556 atlas entries founded in the 15th century. 2 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. See how Greece compares in the castle statistics.
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