Fortress
Oradea Citadel
🇷🇴 Romania
Oradea Citadel is an architectural monument in Romania, one of the few citadels still in use today. It is said of the citadel that it could not be conquered because of its vast underground networks of connections with the outside. The citadel's water-filled ditch was, in case of siege, filled with thermal water (by conduits) from the Peța river.
Machine-translated from “Cetatea Oradea” on the Romanian Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Oradea Citadel ranks #5,275 of 8,133 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #49 of the 121 mapped in Romania. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,824 times in the last 60 days, more than 64% of the atlas. See how Romania compares in the castle statistics.
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Where is Oradea Citadel?
Oradea Citadel stands in Romania, at 47.05158°, 21.94285°.
How famous is Oradea Citadel?
In this atlas's fame ranking: #5,275 of 8,133 worldwide, and #49 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 Oradea Citadel?
Ruinele cetății Șinteu, about 34 km away.
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