Poland · 15th century
Rytro Castle ranks #5,421 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #200 of the 397 mapped in Poland. Founded c. 1500, it is older than 42% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 556 atlas entries founded in the 15th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,103 times in the last 60 days, more than 53% of the atlas. 4 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Nowy Sącz, 15 km away. See how Poland compares in the castle statistics.
The royal castle of Rytro (Polish Zamek w Rytrze) is a castle ruin situated on a 463-metre-high hill in Rytro near Nowy Sącz in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship, on the river Poprad in the Beskids range (the Sącz Beskids). It is one of the Dunajec castles, which guarded the medieval trade route from the Kingdom of Poland to Upper Hungary along the Dunajec and the Poprad. The name is of German origin and derives from Ritter (knight).
Machine-translated from “Burg Rytro” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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