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Fortress

Forte Filippo

Italy

Heritage status
Italian national heritage
Location
Monte Argentario
Coordinates
42.39778°, 11.20595°
Forte Filippo in Italy
Photo: Petitverdot: Matteo Vinattieri · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

Forte Filippo is a coastal fortification located in the municipality of Monte Argentario, on the summit of a promontory overlooking, from the north-east, the hamlet of Porto Ercole and the entire bay of the old harbour.

Machine-translated from “Forte Filippo” on the Italian Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the rankings

Forte Filippo ranks #6,782 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #475 of the 555 mapped in Italy. The nearest day-trip guide is Civitavecchia, 59 km away. It is one of the 42 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Tuscany. See how Italy compares in the castle statistics.

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