Ruin
Slimnic fortress
🇷🇴 Romania
The Slimnic fortress, in German Stolzenburg, is a fortified enclosure with towers, chapel, gate tower, bastion and outbuildings, built in the 14th century. It figures on the 2010 list of historic monuments, LMI code SB-II-m-A-12552.
Machine-translated from “Cetatea din Slimnic” on the Romanian Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Slimnic fortress ranks #7,023 of 8,133 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #78 of the 121 mapped in Romania. 1 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Sibiu, 13 km away. It is one of the 78 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Transylvania. It is stop 12 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 Slimnic fortress?
Slimnic fortress stands in Romania, at 45.91982°, 24.15876°.
How famous is Slimnic fortress?
In this atlas's fame ranking: #7,023 of 8,133 worldwide, and #78 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 Slimnic fortress?
Brukenthal castle in Micăsasa, about 19 km away.
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