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Binningen Castle

Switzerland · 13th century

Binningen Castle in Switzerland
Photo: Andreas Kraneis · CC BY-SA 3.0 de · Wikimedia Commons

Binningen Castle ranks #7,850 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #171 of the 213 mapped in Switzerland. Founded 1293, it is older than 63% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 1091 atlas entries founded in the 13th century. 18 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Basel, 3 km away. See how Switzerland compares in the castle statistics.

Binningen Castle is a castle in the centre of the Basel-Landschaft municipality of Binningen near Basel. Today the castle houses a restaurant with a hotel. Originally the complex was laid out as a moated castle, but the water was filled in in 1772.

Machine-translated from “Schloss Binningen (Schweiz)” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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