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Bauska Castle
Bauska Castle is a composite complex of a 15th-century Livonian Order fortress (now largely in ruins) and an attached 16th-century ducal palace, located on a narrow peninsula where the Mūša and Mēmele rivers join to form the Lielupe. The older red-brick defensive range with a great watch tower sits beside a later pale-plastered palace wing with steep orange-tiled roofs and round corner towers; the palace has been restored while the medieval fortifications remain ruinous.
Its prime
1601
Today
Partial ruin
As it stood in 1601
The shape it held in its prime.
The complex presents two contrasting halves: a ruined red-brown brick medieval curtain wall and fragmentary towers to the west, and a later pale-plastered palace wing with steep orange-red tiled roofs, dormer windows and two massive round towers at its corners. A tall round watch/keep tower rises above the inner bailey, with traces of a former gatehouse and drawbridge on the approach. The castle sits on a grassy peninsula between two converging rivers with the town beyond.
Step inside
9 places to explore in 1601.
The record describes 9 distinct spots at Bauska Castle — including 2 interiors: prison under the watch tower, palace inner courtyard. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more rooms of the immersive experience.
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See Bauska Castle with the fires lit.
The artist rebuilds it as it stood in 1601 — a photoreal walk that belongs to you alone. Pay with coins, no subscription needed.
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