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Feraklos Castle
Feraklos Castle is a medieval fortress sitting on an 85 m-high rocky hill above the coastal village of Charaki on the east coast of Rhodes. Originating in the Byzantine period, it was held and rebuilt by the Knights Hospitaller in the 15th century and was captured by the Ottomans in 1523; it is now a ruined stronghold. The site consists of an irregular polygonal curtain wall enclosing a small hilltop plateau with surviving towers and a cistern.
Its prime
1490
Today
Ruin
As it stood in 1490
The shape it held in its prime.
Perched on a steep, rocky 85 m hill, the castle forms an irregular polygonal ring of roughly coursed stone walls following the craggy ridge. Surviving fabric includes two cylindrical towers and a single gateway on the southern side; much of the interior is open earth and rubble with a recessed stone cistern. The masonry is pale local limestone, the wall tops largely broken, and the ruined circuit overlooks the white seaside village and beaches below.
Its story
The story of Feraklos Castle.
Feraklos Castle sits on an 85-metre rocky hill above the coastal village of Charaki on the east coast of Rhodes. The fortress originated in the Byzantine period — the northern and western portions of its walls are still Byzantine work — and its irregular polygonal circuit runs 680 metres around a hilltop area of 1,700 square metres.
By 1408 the castle was in ruins. The Knights Hospitaller repaired it under Grand Masters Giovanni Battista Orsini (1467–76) and Pierre d'Aubusson (1476–1503) as a stronghold to protect the area and, in particular, watch over the anchorages at the Charaki and Agia Agathi beaches nearby. The Ottomans captured it in 1523; a single gate, two cylindrical towers in the southern walls and an interior cistern survive among the ruins.
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8 places to explore in 1490.
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