Trakai
Trakai is a city in the Dzūkija region of Lithuania, 28 km west of the capital Vilnius. It's on the shores of Lake Galvė and its star attraction is the Island Castle - this and the Peninsula Castle are from the 14th century, when the capital moved here and was fortified against attack.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 4,930 residents
- Description: city in Lithuania
- Also known as: “Novyye Troki”, “Troki Nove”, and “Troki Nowe”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Trakai Peninsula Castle and Užutrakis manor estate.
Trakai Peninsula Castle
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Trakai Peninsula Castle is one of the castles in Trakai, Lithuania. It is located on a peninsula between southern Lake Galvė and Lake Luka. Built around 1350–1377 by Kęstutis, Duke of Trakai, it was an important defensive structure protecting Trakai and Vilnius, capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, against attacks of the Teutonic Knights.
Užutrakis manor estate
Photo: Karmen media, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Užutrakis Manor is a late 19th-century residential manor of the Tyszkiewicz family in Užutrakis, on the shore of Lake Galvė, opposite the famous Trakai Castle.
St. Mary Church
Church
Photo: Juliux, CC BY-SA 4.0.
St. Mary Church in Trakai, Lithuania, is a Roman Catholic church. It was founded by Vytautas the Great in 1409 and constructed in gothic style. Later it was significantly altered during the Baroque period, and its current appearance is mostly defined by these alterations.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Varnikai and Old Town.
Varnikai
Village
Photo: Anaiptol, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Varnikai is a small village located in the Trakai District Municipality in Lithuania. The population is 75 inhabitants according to the 2011 census.
Trakai
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Vilnius County, Dzūkija, Lithuania, Baltic states, Europe
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Latitude
54.645° or 54° 38′ 42″ northLongitude
24.9354° or 24° 56′ 7″ eastPopulation
4,930Elevation
152 metres (499 feet)United Nations Location Code
LT TKIOpen location code
9G66JWVP+X5OpenStreetMap ID
node 32821844OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yiddish—“Trakai” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Trakai”
- Arabic: “تراكي”
- Armenian: “Տրակայ”
- Asturian: “Trakai”
- Azerbaijani: “Trakay”
- Basque: “Trakai”
- Belarusian: “Тракай”
- Belarusian: “Трокі”
- Bulgarian: “Тракай”
- Catalan: “Trakai”
- Cebuano: “Trakai”
- Chinese: “特拉凯”
- Chinese: “特拉凱”
- Crimean Tatar: “Trakay”
- Croatian: “Trakai”
- Czech: “Trakai”
- Czech: “Trakaj”
- Czech: “Troki”
- Danish: “Trakai”
- Dimli (individual language): “Trakai”
- Dutch: “Trakai”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تراكى”
- Esperanto: “Trakai”
- Estonian: “Trakai”
- Finnish: “Trakai”
- Finnish: “Troki”
- French: “Trakai”
- French: “Trakaï”
- French: “Troki”
- Galician: “Trakai”
- Georgian: “ტრაკაი”
- German: “Trakai”
- German: “Traken”
- German: “Troki”
- Greek: “Τρακάι”
- Greek: “Τράκαϊ”
- Hebrew: “טרקאי”
- Hungarian: “Trakai”
- Indonesian: “Trakai”
- Italian: “Trakai”
- Japanese: “トゥラカイ”
- Japanese: “トラカイ”
- Korean: “트라카이”
- Latin: “Troca”
- Latvian: “Trakai”
- Latvian: “Traķi”
- Latvian: “Trāķi”
- Lithuanian: “Naujieji Trakai”
- Lithuanian: “Trakai”
- Macedonian: “Тракај”
- Maltese: “Trakai”
- Moksha: “Тракай”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Trakai”
- Norwegian: “Trakai kommune”
- Norwegian: “Trakai”
- Ossetian: “Тракай”
- Persian: “تراکای”
- Piemontese: “Trakai”
- Polish: “Trakai”
- Polish: “Troki”
- Portuguese: “Trakai”
- Portuguese: “Troki”
- Romanian: “Trakai”
- Russian: “Тракай”
- Russian: “Тракен”
- Russian: “Троки”
- Samogitian: “Trakā”
- Samogitian: “Trakai”
- Scots: “Trakai”
- Serbian: “Trakai”
- Serbian: “Trakaj”
- Serbian: “Тракај”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Trakai”
- Silesian: “Trakai”
- Sindhi: “ٽراڪئي”
- Slovak: “Trakai”
- Slovenian: “Trakai”
- Spanish: “Trakai”
- Swahili: “Trakai”
- Swedish: “Trakai”
- Swedish: “Troki”
- Tatar: “Trakai”
- Tatar: “Trakay”
- Tatar: “Тракай”
- Turkish: “Trakai”
- Ukrainian: “Тракай”
- Ukrainian: “Троки”
- Upper Sorbian: “Trakai”
- Urdu: “تراکئی”
- Uzbek: “Trakay”
- Volapük: “Trakai”
- Welsh: “Trakai”
- Wu Chinese: “特拉凯”
- Yiddish: “טראק”
- “Trakā”
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