Poland · 14th century
Smoleń Castle ranks #3,815 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #137 of the 397 mapped in Poland. Founded c. 1350, it is older than 54% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 758 atlas entries founded in the 14th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 1,948 times in the last 60 days, more than 69% of the atlas. 9 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Kraków, 46 km away. See how Poland compares in the castle statistics.
Smoleń Castle (Polish: Zamek w Smoleniu) is a castle ruin in Smoleń not far from Olkusz in the Kraków-Częstochowa Upland, on the castle hill in the Smoleń nature reserve. The castle is one of the Eagles' Nests castles, which in the 14th century secured the border between the Kingdom of Poland and the Holy Roman Empire. Today it lies in the Silesian Voivodeship, but historically belongs to Lesser Poland.
Machine-translated from “Burg Smoleń” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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