Castle of Mendenitsa, Phthiotis, Central Greece

A Frankish castle in the village of Mendenitsa at the north slopes of mountain Kallidromon, right above the passage of Thermopylae. The castle was built in 1204 by the Lombard knight Guido Pallavicini who had become marquess of Bodonitsa under the “king of Thessalonica” Boniface of Montferrat after the fall of Constantinople in 1204, at the beginning of the Frankish occupation of Greece. The state survived when in 1311 the Catalans became rulers of the Duchy of Athens. In 1335 the Venetian Niccolo I Zorzi became the lord of Mendenitsa after his marriage with the last descendant of the Pallavicini family, Guglielma, known as “The Lady of Thermopylae”. The Ottomans captured the castle in 20th June 1414. The last marquis Niccolo II Zorzi fled to Venice. The castle was taken by the Greeks in the first months of the Greek Revolution in 1821. I created the model with Agisoft Photoscan trial using a drone video. Fixes of the geometry and texture map were done in ZBrush.