Amfissa Castle - A castle with a very violent history

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We explore the Amfissa Castle, a.k.a. Salona castle or Oria Castle...
a castle with a violent history, that goes from remote antiquity to WWII.
Today is a public park with a beautiful view over the modern city of Amfissa.

It was attacked, besieged, destroyed and repaired many times by Macedonians, Gauls, Visigoths, Huns, Bulgarians, Slavs, Franks, Catalans, Turks and others.

Location:
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Akropolis+-+Castle+of+Amfissa/@38.5249,22.4148533,14.79z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x135f71224d373557:0x2bf2c52d6753fcad!8m2!3d38.5314358!4d22.3733829

Sources:
https://www.kastra.eu/castleen.php?kastro=amfisa
https://greece.terrabook.com/phocis/page/amfissa/
https://www.soc.mil/ARIS/books/pdf/ARIS_Greece-BOOK-small.pdf

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