Latvia · 13th century
Trikāta Castle ruins (Latvian Trikātas viduslaiku pils) was an order castle of the Livonian Order in Livonia in present-day Latvia. The wooded castle hill rises on a 30 m high bank between Lake Trikāta and the river Abula (German: Abbul) in Trikāta, a settlement in the Valmiera district.
Machine-translated from “Burg Trikaten” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Trikāta Castle ruins ranks #7,926 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #46 of the 47 mapped in Latvia. Founded c. 1201, it is older than 75% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 1080 atlas entries founded in the 13th century. 2 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. See how Latvia compares in the castle statistics.
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