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Burgruine Liebenfels

🇦🇹 Austria · 14th century

Burgruine Liebenfels in Austria
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Burgruine Liebenfels is a pair of castle ruins on a rocky hilltop northeast of the municipality of Liebenfels in the district of Sankt Veit an der Glan, the historical central area of Carinthia, Austria. The surviving structures include examples of Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance architecture.

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Burgruine Liebenfels ranks #4,222 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #130 of the 182 mapped in Austria. Founded 1312, it is older than 65% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 312 atlas entries founded in the 14th century. See how Austria compares in the castle statistics.

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