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Liteni Castle
🇷🇴 Romania
Liteni Castle (Geczy Castle, Lita Castle) is a medieval fortress built 3 km south-west of the village of Liteni (in Hungarian Magyarléta) in Cluj County, on a rock above the Iara Valley.
Liteni Castle is inscribed on the list of historic monuments of Cluj County drawn up by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Romania in 2010 (code CJ-I-m-A-07090.01).
Machine-translated from “Cetatea Liteni” on the Romanian Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Liteni Castle ranks #6,872 of 8,133 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #73 of the 121 mapped in Romania. 5 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Cluj-Napoca, 21 km away. It is one of the 78 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Transylvania. It is stop 17 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 Liteni Castle?
Liteni Castle stands in Romania, at 46.60815°, 23.43419°.
How famous is Liteni Castle?
In this atlas's fame ranking: #6,872 of 8,133 worldwide, and #73 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 Liteni Castle?
Mikes castle in Săvădisla, Cluj, about 7 km away.
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