Qualla: Castle of Cuppa https://qualla.com/castle-of-cuppa en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:30 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Castle of Cuppa https://qualla.com/castle-of-cuppa Castle of Cuppa: Introduction https://qualla.com/castle-of-cuppa/ There is almost nothing left to see, and that absence is the story. The Castle of Cuppa once stood on Mount Mavrovouni in central Euboea, a stronghold worth fighting and dying for. A large part of it - keep and all - survived into the 19th century. Then it disappeared. Today the visitor finds only a single stretch of wall, and even that wall is a kind of confession: it is built partly from spolia, fragments of older, ancient structures hauled up the slope and mortared into something new.

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]]> Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/w/c/5/castle-of-cuppa-wp/swc5-castle-of-cuppa-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Castle of Cuppa: A Prize on the Frontier https://qualla.com/castle-of-cuppa/ Cuppa rose in the chaotic decades after the Fourth Crusade, when Euboea was carved into Lombard baronies and everyone wanted a piece of the island's center. Sitting in the district once called la Vallona, near the village of Avlonari, the castle first appears in the records of th...

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