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Fortress Gripe

Croatia · 17th century

Founded
c. 1700
Style
Baroque architecture
Heritage status
Register of Cultural Goods of Croatia
Location
Split
Elevation
41 m
Coordinates
43.50861°, 16.44722°
Fortress Gripe in Croatia
Photo: Kaiser87 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

Gripe Fortress is a modern-era fortress complex in Croatia, in the centre of the city of Split, Split-Dalmatia County.

Machine-translated from “Gripe-erőd” on the Hungarian Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the rankings

Fortress Gripe ranks #7,583 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #78 of the 79 mapped in Croatia. Founded c. 1700, it is older than 21% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 710 atlas entries founded in the 17th century. 9 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Split, 1 km away. It is one of the 32 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Dalmatia. It is stop 11 of 21 on the Dalmatian fortress coast, Zadar to Dubrovnik. See how Croatia compares in the castle statistics.

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