Fifteenth century
The castle was built in the fifteenth century on the site of an earlier thirteenth-century fortress. It served as the headquarters of the Grand Commander of the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem; during the fourteenth century the area was also associated with the Templars.
The knights produced sugar and wine here. Beside the main tower survive the remains of a sugar mill and an aqueduct, while the name of Commandaria wine recalls the estates of the commandery.
We photographed the tower, coats of arms on the walls, the aqueduct, a small church and an inscription built into its wall. At the site the story can be read not only in the rooms of the castle but also in the entire productive landscape around it.
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