Samobor Castle

Samobor Castle is a ruined fortress atop of Tepec hill in Samobor, Croatia. It lies best a ten-minute stroll far from the town centre. Remains of the old fort moat are nonetheless seen, as well as the huge entrance and maximum of the partitions. The fort became constructed on a hill above the crossroads of then essential routes inside the northwestern corner of the Sava valley, above the medieval marketplace metropolis of Samobor.

The castle changed into erected via the supporters of Czech king, Ottokar II of Bohemia, between 1260 and 1264, who was then in a warfare with Hungarian king Stephen V. Croatian Hungarian forces under command of duke of Okic soon retook the citadel, for which he became granted the town of Samobor, as well as the privilege to collect neighborhood taxes. The fortification changed into in the beginning a stone fort constructed on stable rock in an abnormal and indented format, which consists of three components, out of which the critical core represents the oldest a part of the castle.