Castle
Lielvārde Castle
🇱🇻 Latvia · 13th century
Lielvārde Castle (Lielvārde bishop's castle) is a castle in Lielvārde, a town in Ogre Municipality in the Vidzeme region of Latvia.The castle was built at the steep bank of Daugava River, overseeing this important medieval waterway, before 1248 by Albert of Buxthoeven, an archbishop of Riga. During the Livonian War, Lielvārde Castle was destroyed by Russian troops in 1579. Its ruins are conserved up to the level of the second floor.
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Lielvārde Castle ranks #3,432 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #23 of the 30 mapped in Latvia. Founded 1201, it is older than 80% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 478 atlas entries founded in the 13th century. See how Latvia compares in the castle statistics.
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