Warsaw Citadel

Warsaw Citadel (Polish: Cytadela Warszawska) is a 19th-century fortress in Warsaw, Poland. It was built by order of Tsar Nicholas I after the suppression of the 1830 November Uprising in order to bolster imperial Russian control of the city. It served as a prison into the late 1930s, especially the dreaded Tenth Pavilion of the Warsaw Citadel (X Pawilon Cytadeli Warszawskiej); the latter has been a museum since 1963.

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Warsaw Citadel ranks #1,092 of 3,734 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #26 of the 165 mapped in Poland. Founded 1834, it is older than 11% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 267 atlas entries founded in the 19th century. See how Poland compares in the castle statistics.

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