Fortress
Dăbâca Fortress
🇷🇴 Romania
Dăbâca Fortress (also called the County Fortress) is a former royal fortress and the seat of Dăbâca County. In the 10th–14th centuries it played an important role in the history of Transylvania. The ruins of the fortress are in the present-day locality of Dăbâca in Cluj County.
Machine-translated from “Cetatea Dăbâca” on the Romanian Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dăbâca Fortress ranks #7,296 of 8,133 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #86 of the 121 mapped in Romania. 6 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Cluj-Napoca, 24 km away. It is one of the 78 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Transylvania. It is stop 25 of 26 on the Transylvania castle route, Bran to Cluj-Napoca. See how Romania compares in the castle statistics.
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Where is Dăbâca Fortress?
Dăbâca Fortress stands in Romania, at 46.97647°, 23.67136°.
How famous is Dăbâca Fortress?
In this atlas's fame ranking: #7,296 of 8,133 worldwide, and #86 in Romania. Fame here combines how many Wikipedia language editions cover a landmark with how many people read them.
What is the nearest castle to Dăbâca Fortress?
Castelul Bánffy din Borșa, about 5 km away.
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