🇬🇷 Greece
23 castles, fortresses, palaces and ruins within 100 km of the city centre — every one on the interactive map, with photos, distances and directions.
The closest is Kalamata Castle, 1 km north-east of the city centre; the most famous is Mystras — #68 of 7,738 worldwide — 23 km east. The oldest dated site in the circle is Palace of Nestor, founded 1300 BC.
Every one of them stands in Greece — the country page shows the full national picture.
23 km east · Ruin · #68 worldwide
Mystras or Mistras, also known in the Chronicle of the Morea as Myzethras or Myzithras, is a fortified town and a former municipality in Laconia,…
1 km north-east · Ruin
The Castle of Kalamata is a ruined medieval fortress in Kalamata, the capital of Messenia in southern Greece.
23 km east · Castle
Mystras Castle, also known as the castle of Villehardouin, is the fortress dominating the medieval town of Mystras, in Greece.
37 km west · Ruin
The Palace of Nestor was an important centre in Mycenaean times and is traditionally identified with the palace of the Homeric king Nestor at "sandy…
41 km west · Castle
The Old Navarino castle is a 13th-century Frankish fortress near Pylos, Greece.
44 km south-west · Castle
The Castle of Methoni is a medieval fortification in the port town of Methoni, Messenia, in southwestern Greece.
40 km west · Fortress
The fortress of New Navarino is an Ottoman fortification near Pylos, Greece. It is one of two castles guarding the strategic Bay of Pylos, on which…
58 km north-west · Castle
Araklovon, rarely known with the variant Oreoklovon and in French as Bucelet and variants thereof, was a medieval castle of the Byzantine era located…
30 km south-west · Castle
The Castle of Koroni was built in Byzantine times on the site where the city of ancient Asine once stood.
49 km south-east · Ruin
Las was a Lacedaemonian perioecic town which later belonged to the Eleutherolaconians. Las was an important port of Sparta.
45 km south-east · Castle
Kelefa Castle is a former Turkish fortress of the Eastern Mani, in the regional unit of Laconia, in Greece.
30 km north-west · Castle
Saflaouro Castle, or the Castle of Saflaouros, also referred to as the Castle of Lantzounato, or Saflaouri, or Savlaouros, or Saflaouros, or the…
96 km north-east · Fortress · #266 worldwide
The Lion Gate is the popular modern name for the main entrance of the Bronze Age citadel of Mycenae in Southern Greece.
85 km north-east · Fortress
Palamidi is a fortress to the east of the Acronauplia in the town of Nafplio in the Peloponnese region of southern Greece.
84 km north-east · Fortress
The Acronauplia is the oldest part of the city of Nafplion in Greece. Until the thirteenth century, it was a town on its own.
86 km north-east · Ruin
Larisa is the ancient and medieval acropolis of Argos, located on a high rocky hill, within the town's boundaries to the west.
99 km north-west · Castle
Pontikokastro, known in French as Beauvoir and Italian as Belveder during the late Middle Ages, is a Byzantine castle in Agios Andreas, Katakolo, in…
72 km north · Castle
Argyrokastro is a castle in the region of the Peloponnese, Greece. It is located in mountainous Arcadia, near the village of Magouliana, at an…
76 km north · Castle
The Akova Castle is a medieval fortification in Gortynia, Arcadia, Greece. The medieval castle, also known as Mattegriffon, is built on top of a…
72 km north-east · Castle
Paralio Astros Castle is a medieval castle located on the summit of the hill of Paralio Astros, 4 kilometres from Astros.
66 km north-east · Castle
Mouchli was a Byzantine town and castle in the Tegean plain in the Peloponnese in Greece.
95 km north · Ruin
The Castle of Tartaris, or Castle of Sopoto, is a Frankish structure of the 13th century whose ruins survive today near the village of Sopoto in the…
97 km north · Ruin
The name Κάστρο της Οχιάς, also Oreias or Orias, is given to the ruins of a medieval castle and also of a settlement in Elis.
Distances are straight-line from the city centre. City coordinates and population: Wikidata Q167895.
The Castlemap atlas maps 23 landmarks (12 castles · 4 fortresses · 7 ruins) within 100 km of the centre of Kalamata, measured straight-line — a curated selection of well-documented landmarks, not a count of every fortification ever built.
Kalamata Castle, a ruin 1 km north-east of the city centre.
Mystras, ranked #68 of 7,738 worldwide in the atlas's fame ranking — 23 km east from Kalamata.
The oldest dated landmark in the circle is Palace of Nestor, founded 1300 BC — 37 km west. Earlier structures may have existed; this is the oldest with a documented founding year.
Nearby city guides: Patras (138 km) · Athens (177 km) · Chalkída (205 km). See also medieval castles · all rankings · castles by country.
