Remains of a fortification wall, of unknown chronology, in one of the peaks of mount Farmakas located between the Argolis and Corinth regions.

History

We do not have any information about the history or the construction date of the fort.

The dry-stone construction leads to the hypothesis that it might be an ancient fortification. However, the type of construction and the remote location make a construction sometime in the medieval period more possible.

It was a small fort and was used perhaps as a refuge in times of barbaric invasions or/and it was an intermediate link of optical communication between the large castles of the region.

Structure, Fortification & Buildings

From the fortress it remains only a fortification wall 135m long, preserved at a height around 1m.

Only the southern side and partly the western were fortified. The northern and eastern sides had no fortification because they were protected by the rough terrain (either that or the wall has fallen down the cliff after, perhaps, a landslide).

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