Neratzia Castle - Kos, Kos island, Greece
N 36° 53.711 E 027° 17.443
35S E 525902 N 4083283
The Neratzia Castle, situated at the entrance of the Kos Harbor, was built by the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem (the Knights Hospitaller) who ruled on the island Kos from 1314 to 1512.
Waymark Code: WMV558
Location: Greece
Date Posted: 02/25/2017
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The Neratzia Castle, situated at the entrance of the Kos Harbor, was built by the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem (the Knights Hospitaller) who ruled on the island Kos from 1314 to 1512. The inner Keep was built around the 14th century while the outer Keep dates from the end of the 15th / beginning of the 16th century.
After the first siege of Rhodes by the Ottomans in 1480 - where the Turks used cannons gunpowder - and the destruction caused by the earthquake of 1493, the Knights of Rhodes decided to strengthen Kos Castle building a second enclosure on three sides of the initial fortress. This outer wall was built, starting in 1495, under the Grand Masters Magister Pierre d'Aubusson (1476-1503) and Emery d'Amboise (1503-1512), and completed under the magisterium of Fabrizio del Carretto (1513-1521).