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Španjola Fortress

Croatia

Heritage status
Register of Cultural Goods of Croatia
Location
Hvar
Coordinates
43.17475°, 16.442°
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Španjola Fortress in Croatia
Photo: Bernard Gagnon · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

The Španjola town fortress (Croatian: Tvrđava Španjola, or Fortica, from the Italian fortezza) was, together with the town walls, the military defence of the town and port of Hvar. It stands on a hill above the port, at a height of about 110 metres above sea level. Since the 20th century it has been one of the town of Hvar's popular tourist attractions.

Machine-translated from “Španjola” on the Czech Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the rankings

Španjola Fortress ranks #5,780 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #53 of the 79 mapped in Croatia. 1 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Split, 37 km away. It is one of the 32 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Dalmatia. It is stop 13 of 21 on the Dalmatian fortress coast, Zadar to Dubrovnik. See how Croatia compares in the castle statistics.

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