Mylopotamos Castle

Mylopotamos Castle, locally known as the Castle of Kato Chora Mylopotamou, is thought to have been built at the beginning of the 16th century as a small-scale fortress in which the inhabitants of the village could take shelter in the event of an attack from the sea, but especially for observing activity in the sea on the western side of Kythira. After 1545 it is recorded that 80 refugee families from Cyprus and Crete lived there, who also provided the soldiers necessary for its guarding; St John the Theologian, the Holy Anargyroi, St Nicholas, All Saints, St John the Forerunner and St Demetrios. Above the gate of the fort there survives a relief with the symbol of Venetian rule, the winged lion of St Mark, with the inscription "PAX TIBI MARCE EVANGELISTA MEUS MDLXV (1565)" ("Peace to you, Mark, my Evangelist"). The site was inhabited until the 1950s, while burials took place there until the end of Venetian rule.

Machine-translated from “Κάστρο Μυλοποτάμου Κυθήρων” on the Greek Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Mylopotamos Castle ranks #7,798 of 8,133 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #108 of the 134 mapped in Greece. Founded c. 1550, it is older than 39% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 755 atlas entries founded in the 16th century. 1 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. It is one of the 35 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of the Peloponnese. See how Greece compares in the castle statistics.

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