Castle
Rize Castle
🇹🇷 Turkey
Rize Castle (Turkish: Rize Kalesi) is a partly-ruined medieval castle located in Rize, northeastern Turkey.
Rize Castle is situated on a hill southwest of the city center, and offers a panoramic view of the city.
The castle consists of a citadel and the lower castle. It is believed that the citadel was built during the reign of Byzantine emperor Justinian I (r. 527–565), and the lower castle dates back to the 13th century.
Text adapted from “Rize Castle” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rize Castle ranks #3,781 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #70 of the 107 mapped in Turkey. See how Turkey compares in the castle statistics.
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