Larisa is a ruined castle on a high rocky hill west of the town of Argos in the Peloponnese, Greece, built of stone on the site of an ancient and medieval acropolis. The main Mycenaean settlement and temple lay on Aspis hill, north of Larisa, and Dorians settled the eastern slope in the Late Bronze Age.
Later walls linked the citadels on Larisa and Aspis and then encircled the classical city, with gates including the Deiras gate on the west and the Nemean gate on the north. The Byzantines built a new castle in the 12th century, and Geoffrey of Villehardouin captured it in 1212. Argos and Nauplia were sold to Venice in 1388, and the Ottomans conquered Argos in 1463.
The surviving castle includes Hellenistic and Frankish walls and a Venetian polygonal bastion behind a Turkish round bastion. Demetrios Ypsilantis captured the summit castle in 1821 during the Greek War of Independence.
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