Castle
Taktsé Castle
🇨🇳 China
Taktsé Castle (Tibetan: སྟག་རྩེ་, Wylie: Stag-rtse) was a castle located in the Chingwa (Wylie: Phying-ba) district of Chonggyä (Wylie: Phyongs-rgyas) in central Tibet. According to legend, it was home to the kings of Tibet before Songtsen Gampo (604–650) moved his capital to Lhasa. It later became the birthplace of the Great Fifth Dalai Lama (1617–1682), whose aristocratic family had made their home there.
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Taktsé Castle ranks #4,112 of 5,793 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #67 of the 120 mapped in China. See how China compares in the castle statistics.
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