Croatia · 6th century
Fort St. Michael ranks #3,447 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #31 of the 79 mapped in Croatia. Founded c. 550, it is older than 96% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 39 atlas entries founded in the 6th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,749 times in the last 60 days, more than 66% of the atlas. It is one of the 32 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Dalmatia. It is stop 1 of 21 on the Dalmatian fortress coast, Zadar to Dubrovnik. See how Croatia compares in the castle statistics.
Fort St. Michael (Croatian: Utvrda sv. Mihovila; Italian: Fortezza di San Michele) is a fortress on the island of Ugljan, in northern Dalmatia, Croatia. It was initially built by the Byzantine Empire in the 6th century, and rebuilt by the Republic of Venice in 1202, during the Fourth Crusade.
Text adapted from “St. Michael Fort” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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