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Explore citadels, defensive walls, fortified settlements, and strongholds built to command roads, borders, harbours, and difficult terrain.
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Largest adobe complex in the world. Levelled by a 2003 earthquake, then painstakingly rebuilt.
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A Roman military camp above the Krka River, with a command centre, exercise ground, basilica, and the only known Roman military amphitheatre in Croatia.
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The most intact Crusader castle in the world. T. E. Lawrence called it "the finest castle in the world." Damaged in the civil war.
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Walled Chachapoya settlement on a cloud-forest ridge, with hundreds of circular buildings, narrow entrances, decorated masonry, and imposing retaining walls.
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Herodian fortress on a desert plateau. Site of the famous mass suicide of Jewish rebels under Roman siege in 73 CE.
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A large Bronze Age hillfort near Rovinj, enclosed by three dry-stone walls and connected to the northern Adriatic and wider Mediterranean.
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Royal palace and fortress on a 200-metre rock pillar, with frescoes of celestial maidens half-way up and a mirror wall once polished to a reflective sheen.
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