Kaposvár - Ruins

The castle was built in the Kapos floodplain, and the marshland proved almost to be a better form of defense than the walls. Remains of the walls can still be seen on the western edge of the town, on the old market place. In 1555 the Turks captured the castle and retained possession of it for almost 113 years. On orders from Vienna it was razed to the ground in the early 18th C, and it was 1931 before the remains were discovered and brought to light.