Lida castle of Prince Gedimin fortification XIV-XV. Lida – border city built on the border of Grand Duchy of Lithuania, constantly raided by warlike neighbors. In those troubled times people needed the walls to survive the war and to return to peaceful life.

In 1323 Duke Gediminas ordered to build a stone fortress to stop the ruinous invasion of the country of the Crusader knights. In 1325 the Gediminas castle was ready. He stood on a sandy artificial hill raised on 5-6 metres above the surrounding marshy lowlands. High impregnable walls were built of stone and brick. Their thickness at the base was reached two meters. On one side, the castle was surrounded by a deep moat, with another – an artificial lake, formed due to the dam on the river Lidea.

After Gediminas castle was inherited by Algirdas, and after Jagiello. Inheritance, as usual, did not share in the country and began a civil war. In 1838 was besieged and taken the castle of Lida.

The castle has survived many wars and battles and was destroyed by the Swedes in 1700-1721 year, during the Northern war. The ruins of the destroyed castle had endured one last battle in 1794 between the rebels squad Tadeusz Kosciuszko and Russian troops.

In 1891 in Lida suffered a major fire, which burned the entire city. For the restoration of the buildings began to dismantle what's left of Lida castle.

The restoration of the castle began after 2000. The newly rebuilt walls and towers, and while erect domestic dwelling and household buildings, the walls of the castle organized a great knight the lists. In 2005 it began to hold an annual international festival of medieval culture "the Gediminas Castle", which in recent years has gained unprecedented popularity. In the castle reconstructed historical events, in the fortress there are tournaments and the battlefield, the walls of the castle, on the shores of the artificial lake festivals of ethnic and medieval music.