• Lida Castle is 141 metres (463 ft) above sea level.[1]. The site selected for the castle is naturally defended by the Kamenka and Lida rivers to east and west.
  • When we went to Lida, we didn’t think that we would like the castle so much. We saw the photo, it seemed boring, just walls and that’s all.
  • The Lida Castle is considered an outstanding monument of defensive art of the 14th-15th centuries, one of the oldest in Belarus.
  • Other links in this chain of defense included Hrodna, Navahrudak, Kreva, Medininkai, and Trakai. The modern town of Lida, Belarus grew up around this castle.
  • However, it was sand that Lida Castle was built on. In spite of its unsteady base the castle has been standing for 7 centuries.
  • Home Lida Gediminas Castle - history, legends, photos Gediminas' castle in Lida. ... Castles and palaces of Belarus, which everyone should visit.
  • Lida Castle. The stone castle in Lida was built by order of the Grand Duke of Lithuania, Russia and Zhmoyt Gediminas (1316-41).
  • On January 22, 1940 the Castle of Lida was awarded the status of an archeological monument and in 1953 the castle was taken under state protection.