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Lendava Castle

Slovenia · 13th century

Founded
c. 1272
Heritage status
monument of local significance
Location
Municipality of Lendava
Coordinates
46.56689°, 16.45276°
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Lendava Castle in Slovenia
Photo: Pierre Bona · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Description

The town of Lendava, Hungarian Lendva (German: Unterlimbach; formerly also Hungarian Alsólendva) is the administrative seat and main town of the Municipality of Lendava, the easternmost municipality in Slovenia, in the region of Prekmurje (Hungarian: Muravidék).

The municipality borders Hungary to the east and Croatia to the south. It largely belongs to the ethnically mixed Slovene-Hungarian area of Slovenia.

Machine-translated from “Lendava” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

In the rankings

Lendava Castle ranks #4,931 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #26 of the 50 mapped in Slovenia. Founded c. 1272, it is older than 65% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 1091 atlas entries founded in the 13th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,546 times in the last 60 days, more than 63% of the atlas. 3 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Maribor, 63 km away. See how Slovenia compares in the castle statistics.

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