The Lednica Castle rises on an inaccessible hill (590 m above sea level) in the Slovak White Carpathians. The small building used to be defensive - it was supposed to guard the northern border of the Kingdom of Hungary and the trade route leading to Moravia. Conservation works are currently underway in the picturesque ruins. From the village you can get here along the blue trail.
The stronghold was built in the 12th century. The castle consisted of an outer ward, a small castle and an observation tower. Due to its location on quite steep and inaccessible rocks, the possibilities of its expansion were small, but the defensive conditions were very good. To get to it, you had to go through a heavily fortified rock tunnel.
At the beginning, the castle was the seat of the Lednica lords, later it changed owners over the centuries. After the Battle of Trencin in 1708, it was captured by the imperial army and more or less from that time began to fall into ruin. The building was abandoned in the mid-18th century.
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