Castle
Castle and its Fortifications
🇨🇭 Switzerland · 12th century
Valangin Castle is a castle in the municipality of Valangin of the Canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. It is a Swiss heritage site of national significance.
The Swiss patrician Katharina Franziska von Wattenwyl lived here after she was exiled from Bern for espionage.
Text adapted from “Valangin Castle” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Castle and its Fortifications ranks #4,235 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #100 of the 141 mapped in Switzerland. Founded 1150, it is older than 86% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 267 atlas entries founded in the 12th century. See how Switzerland compares in the castle statistics.
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