Raseborg Castle

Raseborg was built in the 1370s on a rock that then stood at the head of a sea inlet, guarding the trade route along the southern coast, and it was abandoned by the early sixteenth century. Land uplift, which continues to raise this coast out of the sea, has since left the castle standing above a meadow rather than water, so the setting has to be imagined. The ruin has been consolidated and can be walked, with towers, curtain walls, gates and cellars, and a summer theatre performs in the grounds. The village of Snappertuna around it keeps a church and old farm buildings, and a footpath loops through the meadow below the rock.

What you actually see

• A castle left inland by land uplift - the sea inlet now a meadow.
• Consolidated towers and walls - the fourteenth-century ruin.
• Cellars and gates - the interior spaces still walkable.
• Summer theatre in the grounds - the seasonal performances below the rock.

When to go

May to September, when the site is staffed and the theatre runs; the ruin can be visited outside that but with no services. Two hours.

Honest expectations

It is a ruin with limited interpretation and no roof anywhere. Steps and floors are uneven. Out of season nothing is open. Public transport is poor and a car is close to necessary.

Nearby

Ekenas is south-west; Fiskars lies north.