Kastraki (Arkadiko)
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Kastraki ( Greek Καστράκι = small castle) is an ancient fortification in the Argolis . It is located south of the Arachneo Mountains , about 1 km northwest of Arkadiko , at the northern end of an elongated hill at a height of 380 m. The Acropolis of Kazarma is 2.5 km to the southwest .
description
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The castle is relatively small with about 3000 m² and has a length of about 70 m and a width of about 50 m. Your floor plan is pentagonal. It was surrounded by a 2.50 m thick wall, which is still 3-4 m high in the south. When Ernst Curtius visited Kastraki in the middle of the 19th century, he saw a tower on every corner. Four towers were round and one square. Two of these towers are still visible in the south today. They have a diameter of about 8 m. There was a double gate next to the eastern tower. To the northeast of the castle, Ernst Curtius saw the remains of an ancient settlement.
The fortification is carried out in polygonal masonry dating from the 5th or 4th century BC. BC. The castle was at a strategically important point, because east below the castle the road from Argos to Epidaurus , which ran north of the castle hill, met with the road from Nauplia to Epidaurus, which came from the south.
To the north and especially south there are some ruins of houses that were abandoned in the 20th century. To the south there is also a round threshing floor with a diameter of about 15 m.
literature
- Klaus Tausend: Transport routes of the Argolis: reconstruction and historical significance (= Geographica Historica. Volume 23). Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-515-08943-2 , p. 151 ( online ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst Curtius : Peloponnesos. A historical-geographical description of the peninsula . tape 2 . Justus Perthes, Gotha 1852, p. 417 ( digitized version ).
- ^ Richard Speicher: Peloponnese . 2nd Edition. W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Berlin / Cologne 1980, ISBN 3-17-010031-9 , pp. 183-184 .
Coordinates: 37 ° 36 ′ 22.2 ″ N , 22 ° 58 ′ 6.7 ″ E