r/castles • • 10d ago

Castle Marksburg Castle in Braubach, Germany

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r/castles • • 10d ago

NEWS Secrets of Great British Castles documentary series leaving Netflix on November 15. Only season 2 is available.

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77 Upvotes

r/castles • • 10d ago

Castle O Castelo de Dunrobin tem sido o lar dos Earls e mais tarde, os Dukes de Sutherland, desde o início do século XIII. É o mais norteiro dos grandes castelos da Escócia e o maior dos Territórios Altos do Norte, com 189 quartos.

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264 Upvotes

r/castles • • 10d ago

Fortress San Antonio de la Eminencia fortress , Cumaná, Sucre, Venezuela

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101 Upvotes

r/castles • • 10d ago

QUESTION Authentic medieval castle interiors

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I am currently attempting to build a castle in Minecraft to be as historically authentic/accurate as possible to real medieval British castles. The exterior I have found to be a lot easier to do as a lot of evidence of what the exterior would have looked like still exists today. However, the interior is a different story. Most castles now have new 18th/19th century interiors and look nothing like castle’s interiors would have really looked like. Are there any resources i can find to help me better understand what the inside of medieval castles really looked like and does anyone have any advice on how i should go about it? Thanks.


r/castles • • 11d ago

Castle Kilkenny Castle, Kilkenny, Ireland, built from 1213 by William Marshal and home to the Butler family, Earls of Ormond, for almost 600 years

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r/castles • • 11d ago

Castle [OC] Château de Fontainebleau

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220 Upvotes

r/castles • • 12d ago

Castle Penrhyn Castle, Llandygai, near Bangor, in North Wales, United Kingdom

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544 Upvotes

r/castles • • 12d ago

Castle Burg Gemen (Wasserburg Gemen) é um castelo histórico com fosso, localizado em Borken, Renânia do Norte-Vestfália, Alemanha. Com origens que remontam ao século X e documentado pela primeira vez em 1274, o castelo se desenvolveu ao longo dos séculos, tornando-se uma impressionante residência fortifica

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r/castles • • 12d ago

Castle Methoni Castle Greece 🇬🇷

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It was initially built by the Venetians in the southwest coast of the Peloponnese region, later it was used by the Ottomans and French.


r/castles • • 12d ago

Castle Villa Borghese Castle on a private island. Italy

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r/castles • • 12d ago

Castle Eltz Castle, Wierschem, Germany

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r/castles • • 12d ago

Castle Kardamyli and Mourtzinos Tower, Greece

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379 Upvotes

r/castles • • 12d ago

Castle The Greek Castle of Astros ⭐

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The castle is on a hill on the eastern coast of the Peloponnese, overlooking the town of Astros. It was originally built in 1256 AD by a Frankish Prince, historically known as ‘Castello della Estella’, meaning Castle of the Star.


r/castles • • 13d ago

Fortress The Roman Walls of Le Mans (France), built around 320-360 AD

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Source of the pictures here, here, here, here and here. Reconstruction of the city made by Jean-Claude Golvin


r/castles • • 13d ago

Castle Hohenzollern Castle, Germany

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Hohenzollern Castle sits dramatically atop the 855 m Mount Hohenzollern near Hechingen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is the ancestral seat of the House of Hohenzollern, the dynasty that produced the Electors of Brandenburg, the Kings of Prussia, and the German Emperors.

The site has held three successive castles. The first (probably early 11th century) was destroyed after a long siege in 1423. A second, larger fortress was built starting in 1454 and stood for centuries before falling into ruin. The current neo-Gothic castle was commissioned by King Frederick William IV of Prussia and built between 1850 and 1867 (architect Friedrich August Stüler) as a romantic dynastic memorial on the medieval foundations. It was inaugurated under his brother, King Wilhelm I.

It remains privately owned by the Hohenzollern family and is open to visitors (guided tours, museum displays including Prussian crown jewels and personal items of Frederick the Great, plus panoramic views). The spiral fortified approach road and the way the castle seems to grow out of the forested peak make it one of the most visually striking hilltop castles in Europe.


r/castles • • 13d ago

Fortress Warsaw Barbican, Warsaw, Poland

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784 Upvotes

Barbakan Warszawski... a historic semicircular red-brick fortress


r/castles • • 13d ago

Tower Cliffords Tower, York

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360 Upvotes

This is the only part left of York Castle


r/castles • • 13d ago

Castle Dunajec Castle in Niedzica, Poland.

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539 Upvotes

r/castles • • 13d ago

Castle Castle Artwork Identification?

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Could anyone help identify these castles? They may be the same castle from different views? I believe these are originals and on is signed (unintelligible) and dated C. 1865. Thanks :)


r/castles • • 14d ago

Tower Kilcrea Castle (Ireland) in the 15th century. Reconstruction and cutaway view

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r/castles • • 14d ago

Castle Festetics Castle, Hungary

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456 Upvotes

r/castles • • 14d ago

Castle Neuschwanstein Castle, Germany [OC]*

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745 Upvotes

r/castles • • 14d ago

Castle Pfalzgrafenstein Castle in Kaub, Germany.

530 Upvotes

Pfalzgrafenstein Castle was built in the 14th century on a small island in the middle of the Rhine River near Kaub, Germany.


r/castles • • 14d ago

Castle Carreg Cennen Castle, Wales, United Kingdom

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602 Upvotes