Trakai Castle, Lithuania
Trakai Castle is an island castle situated on the beautiful Lake and it was one of the most important strategic buildings during the medieval times.
Here is one of them situated in Lithuania officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe,[9] the largest of the three Baltic states.
Lithuania on an island in Lake Galvė. The castle is sometimes referred to as "Little Marienburg". The construction of the stone castle was begun in the 14th century by Kęstutis, and around 1409 major works were completed by his son Vytautas the Great, who died in this castle in 1430. Trakai was one of the main centres of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the castle held great strategic importance.
It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, to the east of Sweden and Denmark. It borders Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, Poland to the south, and Kaliningrad Oblast (a Russian exclave) to the southwest. Lithuania has an estimated population of 3 million as of 2013, and its capital and largest city is Vilnius.
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