Fortress
Samnyeonsanseong
🇰🇷 South Korea
Samnyeonsanseong (Korean: 삼년산성; lit. 'three-year mountain fortress'), or Samnyeon Sanseong Fortress, is the ruins of a walled Korean fortress located in Boeun County, North Chungcheong Province, South Korea. It was built beginning in the year 470, during the Silla period.
On May 25, 1973, it was made Historic Site of South Korea No. 235. The fortress has been registered by the South Korean government on the tentative list of sites awaiting approval as a UNESCO World Heritage site.
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Samnyeonsanseong ranks #3,752 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #18 of the 56 mapped in South Korea. See how South Korea compares in the castle statistics.
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