Tropea Castle

Tropea Castle was a castle in Tropea in Vibo Valentia province of Calabria in southern Italy.^[1] In 1725, one of four towers of the castle was damaged, and the entire castle was finally destroyed in 1876, by Carlo Toraldo with explosives.^[2] On 8 July 1806, during the Napoleonic Wars, 400 Polish soldiers surrendered at Tropea Castle to the captain of HMS Apollo.^[3]

The only known daguerreotype of Tropea castle prior to its destruction in 1876