Poland · 19th century
Fort Legionów ranks #7,025 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #277 of the 397 mapped in Poland. Founded 1851, it is older than 7% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 705 atlas entries founded in the 19th century. 46 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Warsaw, 3 km away. See how Poland compares in the castle statistics.
Fort Legionów (Russian: Владимир, "Vladimir") – a fort of the ring of fortifications around the Warsaw Citadel, built in 1851–1853.
In the interwar period the fort housed the archive of Section II of the General Staff of the Polish Army (military intelligence); undestroyed in September 1939, it fell into German hands, thereby becoming one of the greatest known blunders of Polish intelligence of the Second Republic, which led to the imprisonment and death of many Polish agents.
Machine-translated from “Fort Legionów Cytadeli Warszawskiej” on the Polish Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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