Greece · 13th century
Mystras Castle, also known as the castle of Villehardouin, is the fortress dominating the medieval town of Mystras, in Greece.
Machine-translated from “Château de Mistra” on the French Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mystras Castle ranks #6,361 of 9,035 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #79 of the 133 mapped in Greece. Founded 1249, it is older than 71% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 1090 atlas entries founded in the 13th century. 2 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Kalamata, 23 km away. It is one of the 34 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of the Peloponnese. See how Greece compares in the castle statistics.
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