Ruin
Rēzekne Castle
🇱🇻 Latvia · 13th century
- Country
- 🇱🇻 Latvia
- Type
- Ruin
- Fame
- Hidden gem
- Century
- 13th century
- Founded
- 1285
- Coordinates
- 56.50243°, 27.33464°
- Open data
- Wikidata Q7386890
Rēzekne Castle ruins (German: Burg Rositten) are located in the downtown of Rēzekne, Latvia, a city in the center of Latgale. The castle served as a base of the local Livonian order landlords until the 16th century and also as the main military support base for battles against Russians and Lithuanians. Today, fragments of the stone walls and the foundation can be seen on the ancient castle hill.
Text adapted from “Rēzekne Castle” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rēzekne Castle ranks #2,258 of 2,435 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #14 of the 16 mapped in Latvia. Founded 1285, it is older than 72% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 203 atlas entries founded in the 13th century. See how Latvia compares in the castle statistics.
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