Kaštela fortress

Kaštela or Kaštele is a cliff-hanging fortress built above the village of Rizvići, Fojnica, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

[4] The old fortress of Kaštela consist of three larger caves located deep in the rocky part of Zahor.

[5] When the Bosnian Franciscans settled in Fojnica, they built it in order to dedicate themselves to God in a special way, and to educate their brothers.

[5] After the fall of Bosnia, fra Anđeo Zvizdović took refuge in this fort with his Franciscan brothers from Fojnica friary.

[5] After the Ottomans occupied Kozograd and Fojnica, friars from the Fojnica Franciscan friary took refuge in the Kastele fortress, and that among them was Friar Anđeo Zvizdović, just in the time before his meeting with the Sultan Mehmed II el Fatih, from whom he received the Ahdnama of Milodraž in 1463.

[3] On the insistence of Fojnica friars, the KONS inscribed the fortress onto the list of National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina, on November 11, 2017.