An ancient Abk­haz­ian fortress stands on the Anakopia moun­tain. The build­ing, found­ed in the 7th cen­tu­ry by the Byzant…

Built in the 11th cen­tu­ry, it con­sists of the ruins of a medieval fortress and an adjoin­ing Renais­sance cas­tle.

Dat­ing back to the days of Impe­r­i­al Rus­sia, the mas­sive brick and mor­tar fortress was built in the 18th and 19th cent…

For­ti­fi­ca­tion by Louis XIV at the entrance to the Old Port. Accord­ing to leg­end, the Pho­cians, the founders and first…

Built by the Gond ruler, Raja Madan Shah, in 1116 atop a rocky hill, the fort dom­i­nates the sky­line and pro­vides a pa…

One of the ancient forts in Al-Mukalla, the cap­i­tal of Hadra­maut Gov­er­norate in Yemen. It is con­sid­ered an archi­tec­tu…

One of the old­est struc­tures in mod­ern Ser­bia, which has great cul­tur­al and his­tor­i­cal sig­nif­i­cance for the coun­try. …

Ini­tial­ly, the Vene­tians called their fortress “Roc­ca al mare”, which is trans­lat­ed from Ital­ian as “Rock by the sea”…

The Venet­ian fortress, which took 17 years to build (1573–1590), ulti­mate­ly failed to pro­tect the city from the Turks…

The fortress appeared before the Por­tuguese occu­pa­tion. The for­ti­fi­ca­tion was built in the tra­di­tion­al style for Isla…

An old, long-aban­doned Por­tuguese citadel. But it is not the fortress itself that is of inter­est, but the hill on whi…

In the twelfth cen­tu­ry, on the site of the cur­rent Fagaras fortress there was a wood­en for­ti­fi­ca­tion sur­round­ed by a …

Poe­nari Citadel, an enchant­i­ng medieval fortress, is locat­ed on a moun­tain top in Argeș Coun­ty, 27 kilo­me­ters from Cu…

Masa­da is a moun­tain­top fortress which King Herod trans­formed in 35 BC into a 3 tiered win­ter home. Eas­i­ly acces­si­ble…

Mil­i­tary fort on the island of Antigua, built in 1745 and lat­er expand­ed. It was locat­ed at the entrance to Eng­lish H…

One of the most impor­tant archae­o­log­i­cal sites in the coun­try (an exam­ple of a Roman for­ti­fi­ca­tion from the 4th cen­tu…

Ramana is one of the most inter­est­ing and well-pre­served fortress­es of Azer­bai­jan, ris­ing among a very spe­cif­ic lands…

From the top of the fortress you can see the panora­ma of the old city. The Zin­dan Tow­er, one of the parts of the Lank…