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Howard Mausoleum
Built in 1729 stands on a hill in the grounds of Castle Howard and is raised on a wide grassy terrace encircled with a stone wall. A massive double flight of steps leads up to the main chamber of the mausoleum which is encircled with a peristyle of Doric columns and crowned with a shallow dome. Inside it has a coffered ceiling and richly carved entablature supported by Corinthian columns. This circular funerary chamber rests on the great square plinth formed by the vaulted burial vault below. The latter contains sixty three catacombs.
The mausoleum was built for Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle (d.1738) Horace Walpole famously described it as a building which ‘would tempt one to be buried alive.
Corfe Castle is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset. It is the site of a ruined castle of the same name. The village and castle stand over a gap in the Purbeck Hills on the route between Wareham and Swanage. The village lies in the gap below the castle and is around four miles (6.4 km) south-east of Wareham, and four miles (6.4 km) north-northwest of Swanage. Both the main A351 road from Lytchett Minster to Swanage and the Swanage Railway thread their way through the gap and the village. The civil parish of Corfe Castle stretches across the width of the Isle of Purbeck, with coasts facing both the English Channel and Poole Harbour. It, therefore, includes sections of both the low-lying sandy heathland that lies to the north of the castle and the rugged Jurassic Coast upland to the south.
Vallø Castle is a manor house located 7 km south of Køge, in Stevns Municipality, on the island of Zealand in Denmark. It now serves as a residence for Vallø stift, a home for unmarried, widowed and divorced women of noble descent.
Camera: Panasonic GH5
Lens: Leica DG 12-60mm f2.8-4.0
Architect: Nicodemus Tessin the Elder
Built in: 1654
Builder:
Borgholm Castle (Swedish: Borgholms slott) in Borgholm, Sweden, is today only a ruin of the fortress that was first built in the second half of the 12th century and rebuilt many times in later centuries.
The castle was in a bad shape after a war against the Danish and it took until 1654 before a restoration and reconstruction would begin. This time, the castle was to be turned into a baroque palace. Charles X Gustav was the king who ordered this, and Nicodemus Tessin the Elder was the architect engaged to fulfill the king's wishes. When Charles X Gustav died in 1660, the construction stopped, only to be restarted at a slow pace during the reigns of King Charles XI and King Charles XII. In 1709, the construction was finally completed.
For a hundred years, the palace was left to fall into decay. On 14 October 1806, the castle was turned into a ruin by a fire that started in the roof of the north wing.
The castle of today is the ruins of the 17th century baroque palace Charles X Gustav had constructed. It is owned and managed by the National Property Board of Sweden (Statens Fastighetsverk). It is open for visitors and houses a museum.
Crookston Castle was built by the Stewarts of Darnley around 1400, this unusual castle is set within earthworks constructed in the 1100s. Quoted from the Historic Environment Scotland website
The "replica" of Liverpool Castle on the banks of Lower Rivington Reservoir.
Couldn't believe how green the water was until i realised it was Algae. Probably stirred up with all the recent rain?
Back to the castle:
Lord Leverhulme commissioned a replica of Liverpool Castle to be built on his Rivington estate of Lever Park, near Horwich. He had read a work about the original castle by E.W. Cox written in 1892. The description of the Liverpool castle site struck him as being similar to the promontory of Coblowe within his estate. Coblowe is a rocky area that overlooks the Lower Rivington Reservoir. He concluded that this would be an ideal place to resurrect the lost Liverpool stronghold.
Work began in 1912 using locally quarried gritstone. The construction proceeded very slowly with only a few stone masons and labourers being employed on the project. It was never completed as work stopped after Leverhulme’s death in 1925.
However, the replica castle was always meant to look like a ruin, being based not on what Liverpool Castle looked like at the height of its defensive power, but in its damaged state after the Civil War. Now, as plants colonise its walls, we are left with a ruin that reproduces faithfully many of the buildings and features of the original.
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If you are in the Moselle region in Germany than the Castle Eltz is definately worth a visit. The 12th-century castle is one of the most beautiful castles in Europe. Especially during such beautiful and colourful days as on this photo from this fall.
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"Rock Garden German castle built 1938
by Joseph Schuhmacher" at Bailey Arboretum....
it was overgrown, so you really can't appreciate the construction of stones and bricks...
HMT!!
Dunvegan Castle Isle of Skye Scotland. Parts of the castle are thought to date from the ninth century,but buildingwork has been carried out almost every century since the 1200s when Macleods moved in. It is said to be the oldest inhabited castle in Scotland.
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Dunnottar castle is a ruined medieval fortress located upon a rocky headland on the north-eastern coast of Scotland. The surviving buildings are largely of the 15th and 16th centuries. Dunnottar has played a prominent role in the history of Scotland through to the 18th-century Jacobite risings because of its strategic location and defensive strength.
The castle was built in the 16th century by the MacLeods of Assynt and taken over by the Clan Mackenzie in 1672, but in 1726 they constructed a manor house nearby.
Ozu castle and special train IYONADA MONOGATARI.
Between Iyo-Ozu station and Nishi-Ozu station on the Yosan Line, Shikoku Railway Company.
Located : Azo, Ozu-shi, Ehime pref.
愛媛県大洲城と観光列車 伊予灘ものがたり
JR予讃線 / 伊予大洲駅 - 西大洲駅 間
愛媛県大洲市阿蔵にて撮影
I thought I would have a change from all the architecture shots from Milan and share this B&W photo of Castle Stalker in Scotland.
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This is aparrently Scotland's most photographed castle, so there are probably hundreds more of it on Flickr. It's privately owned, so you can't go in (aside from needing a boat). You might recognise it as the castle Aaargh from Monty Python and the Holy Grail - the other Scottish castle in that film being Doune. There was someone there when I took this photo - they had just disappeared into the doorway.
Brodick Castle stands on a south-east facing slope above the north side of Brodick Bay and under the shadow of Goatfell, which rises behind it. It can best be described as a strategically important castle developed over four centuries between the 1200s and the 1600s, with an 1800s stately home wrapped around it.
Dunnottar Castle is one of the most photographed ruined castles in all of Scotland, so it's a challenge to photograph it from a different point of view. This is a less common view of the castle, taken looking up the cliffs that line the Burn of Halymyres, lined with wildflowers.
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My entry for the microscale category in Brickscalibur 😀. Had quite a bit of fun with this one, not at all frustrating to place all those tiny trees…or the waterfall…😂. Hope you like it!
Duffus Castle, near Elgin, Moray, Scotland, was a motte-and-bailey castle and was in use from c.1140 to 1705. During its occupation it underwent many alterations. The most fundamental was the destruction of the original wooden structure and its replacement with one of stone. At the time of its establishment, it was one of the most secure fortifications in Scotland. At the death of the 2nd Lord Duffus in 1705, the castle had become totally unsuitable as a dwelling and so was abandoned.
Bamburgh Castle is an imposing castle located on the coast at Bamburgh in Northumberland, England
Standing high on a basalt outcrop, overlooking the North Sea, Bamburgh Castle is one of the most impressive looking castles in England. It is visible for many miles, and from its battlements offers views of Lindisfarne Castle on Holy Island, the Farne Islands and the Cheviot Hills.
The site of the castle has a history of occupation dating back to the 1st century BC. One of the oldest buildings remaining is a large Norman Keep, probably built by Henry II. In 1464, during the Wars of the Roses, Bamburgh became the first castle to succumb to cannon fire, suffering heavy damage. The ruins of the castle were restored and extended in the 18th and 19th centuries leaving little of the earlier fortifications.
Summer sunset at Castle Hill Lighthouse. Got lucky to catch some receding wave action by getting low on the rocks on this side of the light.
I did a writeup on photographing from this Lighthouse in Rhode Island for the Photographers Trail Notes website. See link below:
First part of my work i have made of Historical Scenes,
you can see it in the Gallery Art4you at the sim Fedef
Here my work of a beautiful Castle at the da vinci gardens..
from time to time i will upload it here..
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Eliean Donan Castle
Scotland
Marianne and I had our fair share of images of this iconic location off Loch Duich. It's a challenge to get something unique about this castle but I guess the high tide, the still waters and that blaze of light behind the castle would make this difficult to 'reproduce'. I decided to try photomatix 4 for parts of this image and I have to say that the result it gives can be pretty realistic. I still blended in other elements from the original files but it has restored my faith a little in some automated programs!
Ter Worm or Terworm Castle (Dutch: Kasteel Terworm) is a castle located in the municipality of Heerlen, Limburg Province, Netherlands. The castle is part of the Terworm estate.
The present building dates largely from the 17th century when the original 15th-century fortified building was converted into a house. It comprises two wings in a T-shaped floor plan surrounded by a moat. The main building is accessible at the front via a marl stone bridge dating from 1843 leading to the main entrance. Between the two wings is a corner tower, which is the oldest part of the castle dating back to the 15th century. Originally round, the tower was converted to an octagonal in the 17th century . The west wing can be dated to 1716, while the south wing has a keystone with the year 1718. The castle garden is a reconstruction based on a French rococo garden laid out by Count Vincent van der Heyden-Belderbusch in 1787 with roses, lavender and boxwood. The garden is a favourite wedding location and admission is free.
Kasteel Ter Worm, Heerlen, The Netherlands
Castle Stalker, or Castle 'Aaargh' from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
The line, 'Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries' was delivered from its battlements.
A castle in the forest...
Wernigerode Castle (German: Schloss Wernigerode) is located in the Harz Mountains above the town of Wernigerode in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
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