🇬🇷 Greece
20 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 Patras Castle, 1 km east of the city centre; the most famous is Chlemoutsi — #1,462 of 8,133 worldwide — 65 km south-west. The oldest dated site in the circle is Dymaean Wall, founded c. 1300 BC.
Every one of them stands in Greece — the country page shows the full national picture.
1 km east · Castle
Patras Castle is a medieval structure in Patras, Greece. It was built around the mid-6th century AD above the ruins of the ancient acropolis of the…
8 km north-east · Ruin
The Rio Castle, historically known as the Castle of the Morea in opposition to its counterpart, the Castle of Rumelia at Antirrio, is located at the…
17 km east · Castle
The Salmeniko Castle or Orgia or Oria Castle was a castle at the foot of Panachaiko mountain, in the modern municipality of Aigialeia, Achaea, Greece.
18 km north-east · Castle
Nafpaktos castle is a fortification in Nafpaktos, in the prefecture of Aetolia-Acarnania.
9 km north · Fortress
The Antirrio Fortress is a fortification located in Greece. It is built at the southernmost point of the prefecture of Aetolia-Acarnania, in…
9 km south · Ruin
Sidirokastro was a castle in Achaea, Greece, situated between the villages Krini and Kallithea.
16 km south · Ruin
The Chalandritsa Tower is a medieval structure of the Franks of the Principality of Achaea, situated in the centre of the town of Chalandritsa, in…
25 km south-west · Castle
Egyptokastro, also known as Gyftokastro, the Castle of Arla or the Castle of Fostaina, is a castle-tower that survives to this day in Achaea.
31 km west · Ruin
Teichus or Teichos, also known as Teichus/Teichos of the Dymaeans or Kalogria Castle, was a prehistoric acropolis in the territory of Dyme, in…
42 km south-east · Ruin
Kalavryta Castle, also known as the castle of Oria, stands on a hill east of the town of Kalavryta, about 1.5 kilometres from the centre.
47 km south-east · 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…
43 km south · 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.
65 km south-west · Castle
Chlemoutsi, also known as Clermont, is a medieval castle in the northwest of the Elis regional unit in the Peloponnese peninsula of southern Greece,…
96 km east · Fortress
Panopeus, or Phanoteus, was a Greek town of ancient Phocis, near the frontier of Boeotia, and on the road from Daulis to Chaeronea.
84 km south · 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…
75 km south-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 south-east · 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…
63 km south · 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…
64 km north-east · Castle
The Castle of Salona stands in the Greek town of Amphissa. It dates from the 13th century but was Hospitaller only from the beginning of the 15th…
84 km north-west · Castle
The Castle of Varnakas or Varnazza is a Byzantine castle in the regional unit of Aetolia-Acarnania near the village of Mýtikas and the village of…
Distances are straight-line from the city centre. City coordinates and population: Wikidata Q133123.
The Castlemap atlas maps 20 landmarks (11 castles · 2 fortresses · 7 ruins) within 100 km of the centre of Patras, measured straight-line — a curated selection of well-documented landmarks, not a count of every fortification ever built.
Patras Castle, a castle 1 km east of the city centre.
Chlemoutsi, ranked #1,462 of 8,133 worldwide in the atlas's fame ranking — 65 km south-west from Patras.
The oldest dated landmark in the circle is Dymaean Wall, founded c. 1300 BC — 31 km west. Earlier structures may have existed; this is the oldest with a documented founding year.
Nearby city guides: Kalamata (138 km) · Chalkída (164 km) · Ioannina (175 km) · Athens (177 km). See also medieval castles · all rankings · castles by country.
