Castle peninsula . It is believed that this castle was built in 1377 by K. Chronicles of the Crusaders in the year to call it the new Trakai castle. Here the old wooden structures and ground anchors the fifteenth century of changes to buildings. The castle was built in the management of Vytautas, 1414 - 1430 in The castle guarded by 11 defensive towers. Today the restoration of the four towers of the castle. After 1430, Resided in the castle peninsula Lithuanian Grand Dukes and Zygmunt vitrigaila Kęstutaitis. Sigismund Kęstutaitį 1440 March 20, Palm Sunday, the gates of the castle tower of the Peninsula conspirators killed him. In this castle in 1503 was imprisoned in Moscow's Grand Duke messengers. Lemtingaisiais 1655 The castle was demolished and nebeatstatyta. Only in the nineteenth century in the second half of the concerns about the state of the castle, began restoration work.

Today Trakai Peninsula Castle is most famous for June 17-19 and August 20 to 21 days of celebrations taking place in the Middle Ages, which revived the medieval town life with his trades, trading, fighting knights. The event annually attracts several thousand people. Two staircases lead to the top of the Peninsula castle location - Victim Hill. According to legend, it was a pagan rite, was sacrificed to the gods. Twentieth century the second half of the victims found in the fifteenth century the Hill House at the beginning of unfinished fragments.