Fortress
Prezë Fortress
🇦🇱 Albania
The Prezë Castle (Albanian: Kalaja e Prezës) is a medieval castle in Prezë, Albania. The mosque inside the castle, built in the 1500s, is one of the oldest mosques in Albania.
Preza Castle was built by the Byzantine emperor Justinian the Great in the 550s.
The castle overlooks the village with the same name and is located on a hilltop. The castle was enlarged by a construction which started in the 14th century and was completed in the early 15th century and belonged to the Thopias, a local Albanian feudal family. During 1443-1468 it was one of the core strongholds of the Albanian resistance against the Ottoman Empire led by Skanderbeg.
Text adapted from “Prezë Castle” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Prezë Fortress ranks #2,727 of 3,691 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #14 of the 17 mapped in Albania. See how Albania compares in the castle statistics.
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