Fortress
Volterraio Fortress
Italy
- Heritage status
- Italian national heritage
- Location
- Portoferraio
- Visitors
- ≈1,087 (2022)
- Coordinates
- 42.80258°, 10.38371°
- Open data
- Wikidata Q3748720
- Links
- OpenStreetMap · Wikimedia Commons
Description
The Fortezza del Volterraio, also known as the Castello del Volterraio, is a coastal fortification located in the municipal territory of Portoferraio, on the island of Elba, at an altitude of 394 m.
Machine-translated from “Fortezza del Volterraio” on the Italian Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
In the rankings
Volterraio Fortress ranks #8,098 of 9,902 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #575 of the 624 mapped in Italy. Wikidata records about 1,087 visitors in 2022. It is one of the 52 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Tuscany. See how Italy compares in the castle statistics.
Castles nearby
- Bolgheri Castle52 km · Italy
- Castello Pasquini67 km · Italy
- Castello Sonnino73 km · Italy
- Fortezza Medicea (Volterra)77 km · Italy
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