The Parthenon is a former temple, on the Athenian Acropolis, dedicated to the goddess Athena, whom the people of Athen ...
The White Tower is a monument and museum on the waterfront of the city of Thessaloniki. The present tower replaced an old Byz ...
The Old Venetian Fortress of Corfu covers the promontory which initially contained the old town of Corfu that had emerged dur ...
Palamidi is a fortress to the east of the town of Nafplio. Nestled on the crest of a 216-metre high hill, the fortress was bu ...
The 'Castello a Mare' is a fortress located at the entrance of the old port of Heraklion, Crete. It was built by ...
Spinalonga is a barren, arid rocky islet lying in the mouth of the natural harbour of Elounda. The islet was fortified in ant ...
The Fortezza (fortress) is the citadel of the city of Rethymno in Crete. It is built on a hill which was the site of ...
The area surrounding Nafplio has been inhabited since ancient times, but few signs of this, aside from the walls of the Acron ...
The New Fortress of Corfu is a Venetian fortress built on the hill of St. Mark in Corfu. The current buildings which exist wi ...
The Heptapyrgion, also popularly known by its Ottoman Turkish name Yedi Kule, is a Byzantine and Ottoman-era fortress situate ...
The Mandraki was the military harbour and was guarded by a tower built between 1464 and 1467 by the Grand Master Zacosta at t ...
The Walls of Thessaloniki are the city walls surrounding the city during the Middle Ages and until the late 19th century. Lar ...
Halki Castle is located on the hill of St. Nicholas over the old village of Halki. It was built by the Knights of St. John in ...
Kassiopi Castle was one of three Byzantine-period castles that defended the island before the Venetian era (1386–1797). The ...
Outside the Monolithos village is the medieval castle, built on top of a 100m rock. It was built in 1480 by the Knights of Sa ...
Angelokastro is a Byzantine castle on the island of Corfu. It is located at the top of the highest peak of the island"s ...
Built by the Venetians in the early 13th century on a rocky promontory, the castle of Methoni is among the largest ones in th ...
The fortifications of the town of Rhodes are shaped like a defensive crescent around the medieval town and consist mostly ...
Mystras, the ‘wonder of the Morea’, developed down the hillside from the fortress built in 1249 by the prince of Achaia, ...
The castle above Kritinia, named Kastellos, was built in 1472 by Giorgio Orsini to protect the inhabitants of the village ...