Patra's imposing castle in Achaia, Greece

The well-kept Castle is located on the top of a hill in the old town with a magnificent panoramic view of Patras. It was built on the ruins of the ancient Acropolis in the 6th century AD. by Justinian who made and Agia Sophia church in Constantinople. In the Byzantine centuries, until the arrival of the Franks (1205), the Slavs, the Saracens, the Bulgarians, the Normans, besieged it, but they did not manage to conquer it. In 1278 it was given to the Latin Archbishop, while in 1408 he was granted by the Pope for five years and against rent, to the Venetians. In the hands of the Latino Archbishop remained until 1430 liberated by Constantine Palaiologos. The Turks conquered it in 1458 and remained there almost during the Ottoman domination in Greece. The castle passed into the hands of the Greeks in 1828 after its delivery by the Turkish garrison to the French general Maison. In the years 1941-1944 it was in the German Nazi occupation from which it was liberated along with the city of Patras on October 4, 1944. We visit the beautiful castle with its magnificent view.