Switzerland
The Besserstein ruins are the ruins of a former spur castle in Switzerland. They lie in the municipality of Villigen in the canton of Aargau at an altitude of 550 m above sea level on the Geissberg. Today it has decayed, and only a few remains are left.
Machine-translated from “Ruine Besserstein” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Besserstein ruins ranks #8,431 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #206 of the 213 mapped in Switzerland. 16 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Winterthur, 39 km away. See how Switzerland compares in the castle statistics.
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