Castle
Blauwe Toren
🇳🇱 Netherlands
The Blue Tower (Dutch: Kasteel de Blauwe Toren) was a castle with an imposing stone keep in Gorinchem, the Netherlands. It was a princely residence of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. The complex, which stood there between 1461 and 1578, gained an almost mythical status thanks in part to descriptions by the Gorinchem chronicler Abraham Kemp and the discovery of its foundations in 1983.
It was located at the southwestern side of the city center, at the level of the current Tolsteeg, Duivelsgracht, and Buiten de Waterpoort by the Merwede river.
Text adapted from “Blue Tower (Gorinchem)” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Blauwe Toren ranks #6,636 of 7,738 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #143 of the 200 mapped in Netherlands. 15 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Breda, 30 km away. See how Netherlands compares in the castle statistics.
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Where is Blauwe Toren?
Blauwe Toren stands in the Netherlands, at 51.82694°, 4.97417°.
How famous is Blauwe Toren?
In this atlas's fame ranking: #6,636 of 7,738 worldwide, and #143 in the Netherlands. Fame here combines how many Wikipedia language editions cover a landmark with how many people read them.
What is the nearest castle to Blauwe Toren?
Loevestein Castle, about 3 km away.
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