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Spiš Castle
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castle in Slovakia
Key facts
- Type
- Castle
- Website
- www .spisskyhrad .com /english /spis-castle /
- Area
- 41,426 sq. m.
- Built
- Twelfth century
- Materials
- Masonry
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Spišský hrad » Spišský hrad – The Spis Castle
spisskyhrad.com →Link to the official site · 5,392 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Spišský hrad
- Country
- Slovakia
- Located in
- Žehra
- Area
- 41426
- Elevation
- 610
- Official website
- www.spisskyhrad.com/english/spis-castle
- Image
- SK SN Spis castle 2024 1.jpg
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- Commons category
- Spiš Castle
- Commons gallery
- Spišský hrad
- heritage designation
- World Heritage Site
- architectural style
- Gothic architecture
- inception
- 1200-00-00
- native label
- Spišský hrad
- P6482
- Spiš Castle
- offers view on
- Spišské Podhradie
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Encyclopedic overview
The ruins of Spiš Castle (Slovak: Spišský hrad, pronunciation; Hungarian: Szepesi vár; Polish: Zamek Spiski; German: Zipser Burg) in eastern Slovakia form one of the six largest castle sites in Slovakia. The castle is situated above the town of Spišské Podhradie and the village of Žehra, in the region known as Spiš (Hungarian: Szepes, German: Zips, Polish: Spisz, Latin: Scepusium). It was included in the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites in 1993 (together with the adjacent locations of Spišská Kapitula and Žehra). The area of the castle is 3.9 ha (39,000 m). It is administered by the Spiš Museum at Levoča, a division of the Slovak National Museum.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Spiš Castle” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.