Enisala Fortress

The fortress crowns a limestone escarpment that once looked out over a coastal bay later transformed by silting into Lake Razim. Surviving sections reflect multiple building phases, with the fort’s overall plan described as irregular. From the northeast two rectangular towers project, while the western curtain turns outward; these elements survive only as fragments within the ruined outline.

Walls attributed to the Genoese measure about three metres in thickness and reach roughly six to seven metres in height where they remain standing. These substantial wall sections date to the thirteenth or fourteenth century enlargement and show the scale of the medieval defensive works. The general plan and the location of the rectangular towers correspond to that Genoese phase.

At the base of the hill are several important archaeological deposits. A Roman camp dated to the fourth century CE has been identified among the lower remains. Two large burial areas were found nearby: a Getic (Dacian) necropolis from the fourth century BCE and a medieval necropolis dated to the fifteenth century. Each of these sites is preserved as archaeological remains associated with the fortress hill.

Today the castle survives in a ruined condition, its walls and towers standing in fragmentary form on the limestone ridge. The landscape around the ruin, including the former coastal bay now represented by Lake Razim, records the environmental changes that contributed to the site’s loss of military importance and later abandonment.