Lida Castle (Gediminas Castle)
Fourteenth-century trapezoidal fortress built of fieldstone boulders and brick
Climb the two diagonal corner towers and walk the wooden wall-walk around the courtyard.
Navahrudak & Lida, Belarus
Ideal: 1–2 daysBest: May–SepPrice: Moderate
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Navahrudak & Lida in 60 seconds
Across the rolling hills of the Neman basin, Navahrudak and Lida trace the fourteenth-century origins of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. In Navahrudak, red-brick castle towers crown a high moraine ridge above the childhood home of Romantic poet Adam Mickiewicz, while fifty kilometres northwest in Lida stands Prince Gediminas's 1323 trapezoidal brick-and-boulder fortress.
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- Castle
- Medieval
- History
- Culture
Known for
- Lida Castle (Gediminas Castle)
- Navahrudak Castle Ruins & Mindaugas Hill
- Adam Mickiewicz House-Museum, Navahrudak
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You only have time for one castle excursion and have not yet visited Mir and Nesvizh.
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Must experience
The things that would make the trip incomplete without them.
Navahrudak Castle Ruins & Mindaugas Hill
Thirteenth-to-sixteenth-century hilltop citadel and adjacent Farny Church
Where King Mindaugas ruled and King Jogaila married Sofija Holshanskaya in 1422.
Adam Mickiewicz House-Museum, Navahrudak
Reconstructed gentry manor where the Polish-Lithuanian Romantic poet grew up
Surrounded by a lime-tree garden and the artificial Mound of Immortality.
Beyond the obvious
Hidden gems
Less obvious, rarely queued for, and usually the part people remember.
Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in Muravanka
1524 late-Gothic fortified brick church between Lida and Grodno
Inscribed on UNESCO's Tentative List for its four cylindrical corner defense towers.