Castle
Daugavgrīva Castle
🇱🇻 Latvia · 13th century
Daugavgrīva Castle (German: Dünamünde; Polish: Dynemunt; Russian: Усть-Двинск or Ust`-Dvinsk) is a former monastery converted into a castle, located at Vecdaugava oxbow on the right bank of Daugava, in the northern part of Riga city, in the Vidzeme region of Latvia. Nowadays here are seen only earthen ramparts.
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Daugavgrīva Castle ranks #2,953 of 3,691 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #23 of the 25 mapped in Latvia. Founded 1205, it is older than 80% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 356 atlas entries founded in the 13th century. See how Latvia compares in the castle statistics.
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