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Highclere Castle in north Hampshire England. Taken from my Auster D4 Aircraft
This is the place used for filming Downton Abbey
In the northern part of Lower Austria sits this beautiful, well-preserved castle in a picturesque scenery.
This castle cake definitely rates as one of our top favourite cakes we've made so far! It's based on a pic we were sent by our customer - the cake was for her grandson Luke - we just thoroughly enjoyed creating this special Birthday cake for him!
Arundel Castle, Castle church, castle gardens and Arundel town. A beautiful place to visit and I had a wonderful spring day visit there.
Arundel is in West Sussex England and the castle is home to the Duke of Norfolk. Castle originally built starting in 1067
Originally built in the 11th century,Edlingham castle was a fortified manor house and solar tower and was used to protect the route to Alnwick from invaders from the Borders. It fell into disrepair in the 16th century and stone it was built from was used to erect farm buildings in the surrounding area. It is now owned by English Heritage.
Sunny though it was on the day I was here, what these photos can not show is that there was a howling gale blowing. My usually imperturbable wife was flying up to Aberdeen to meet me later in the day, and after two attempts at landing in Aberdeen, during which she broke finger nails clutching her seat armrest in a valiant effort to help steady the aircraft, they gave up and went to Edinburgh instead! Here in the beech wood, the noise was terrific and my explorations not without hazard, as branches periodically came spinning down from above.
It is believed that this has been a royal site since the time of the Picts (a name given them by the Romans and taken to mean "painted or tattooed people", the same root word as “picture”.) A Roman army under Agricola defeated the Caledonian army under Calgacus at the Battle of Mons Graupius somewhere nearby in AD 83 or 4.
Former home of the Queen Mother, beautiful little castle, very cosy inside the rooms were small and decorated and furnished by the Queen Mother, nothing matched but that just made it all the more homely.
Wewelsburg Castle an imposing 17th century triangular edifice on a hilltop just south of Hannover in the Paderborn district of Germany.
Used by Himmler in the Second World War as a training school for elite SS officers. Himmler indended to transform the surrounding area into the centre of the new world!
It is now a museum.
Dolbadarn Castle stands above Llyn Padarn, between Caernarfon and Snowdonia. Built by the Welsh Princes it dates to the 13th century and built by Llywelyn ap Iorwerth. Of simplistic design it remains in solid condition and predates the English fortresses of the Edwardian conquest and provides evidence of the extent of Llywelyn's influence and ingenuity.
Castle Moy is an oblong tower, with walls of roughly coursed glacial rubble, buttressed with a batter at all angles. The walls rise three main storeys to a flush parapet, deeply crenelated, with a parapet walk drained by water spouts. There is a gabled garret storey, one gable of which is visible here. Two of the angles have what were once open rounds, but which have been roofed over (and then ruined again) at some stage, to form turrets. One of the two western angles was surmounted by a caphouse for the stair in the castle's south-west corner, while the other corner had a watch-chamber over it, partially projecting on corbelling. The windows are small and sparse, adding to the tower's impression of grim strength. The entrance is to the north-east, approachable only by clambering over bare rock. Currently, it is obscured by scaffolding.
3 kilometers from the village Monolithos, you find the Venetian Castle of Monolithos, wich stands proudly on a jagged rock.
Belfast Castle is set on the slopes of Cavehill Country Park, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
The building was built from 1811–70 by the 3rd Marquess of Donegall. After Donegall's death and the family's financial demise, the 8th Earl of Shaftesbury completed the house.
The castle was presented to City of Belfast in 1934 by the 9th Earl of Shaftesbury.
Adjectives 101 - historic
Medieval castle and church of Benabarre, Province of Huesca, Spain. The castle, an ancient fortress, reconquered from the Arabs in 1058, high on a ridge, overlooking the city.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benabarre
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Das mittelalterliche Schloss und Kirche von Benabarre, Provinz Huesca, Spanien.
Das Schloss, eine uralte Festung, wurde in 1058 von den Christen zurückerobert. Die Festung liegt auf einem Bergrücken hoch über der Stadt,
The castle of Pardubice is a unique renaissance monument due to the extreme level of preservation and impressive disposition. Formerly a 13th water fortress, rebuilt around 1500 by William II of Pernstein into a well fortified four wing chateu. William was one of the most impressive lords of his time, an excellent warrior, commander, politician and a very wealthy economist, who literally brought central Europe from the medieval period into renaissance by his deeds. He always fortified his castles so that he himself would not be able to seize them. And so the castle of Pardubice got a massive earth wall with four large rondels for gun batteries, which was a response to the evolution of artillery. The wall is surrounded by a wall with fire posts all around the castle, and the area in front of the wall could be easily flooded by the nearby river. This defensive system has survived until today, and can be inspected by anyone. More was added to the castle in the folowing centuries, like the sgraffito design and the main tower. Today the castle is completely restored and serves as a museum. There is also a hidden cold war command bunker built into the defensive wall.
Inside the keep. A seagull sculpture. Note the split in the wall. French prisoners once slung their hammocks from the hooks on these beams and others.
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Portchester Castle in Hampshire is a castle of many periods and many uses. It has been a Roman fort, a Saxon settlement, a powerful medieval castle, a priory, a place of conspiracy and a prisoner of war camp.
Portchester started as the Roman ‘Saxon Shore’ fort of Portus Adurni in about the 3rd century A.D. The present square plan of outer walls are Roman and are well preserved, with medieval improvements. These are still some of the best Roman walls in Britain. Wiki claims they are the best preserved Roman walls north of the Alps.
The term ‘Saxon Shore’ has to be used with caution as, while these forts may have served in the later defence of Britain against European tribes such as the Saxons, most evidence suggests they were first built to defend against other Romans during a period of rival Roman emperors. Indeed Portchester is so far to the south as to have been useless against Saxons, Angles or Jutes invading from Denmark or Holland but well placed against invaders from Roman-held France/Gaul. Like all these forts it was a base for the Roman navy as much as their army.
Post-Roman there is evidence and records of a Saxon settlement or burgh within the Roman walls but the coming of the Normans in 1066 meant that the new invaders recognised the value of the site as a large and almost ready-made base for the Norman Conquest. As at Pevensey, in Sussex, the Roman walls were supplemented by a Norman ‘inner bailey’ and then a tall keep. The keep at Portchester is square and still well preserved but is the least disability friendly of a large and generally flat site.
The pious Normans also allowed the Augustinians to build a priory in one corner of the site, where the present church is, while high on the walls there are nine ‘garderobe’ or toilet chutes to allow the monks to relieve themselves straight into the harbour, which then came up to the Roman walls on that side.
Various kings spent money here; Edward II spent £1,100 in the early 14th century in anticipation of a French invasion while Richard II remodelled the great hall, concealing older Norman material under his work. The 1415 ’Southampton’ plot against Henry V was discovered here - this also features in Shakespeare’s Henry V. The Earl of Cambridge, Baron Scrope of Masham and Sir Thomas Grey were arrested and executed.
Sold in 1632, the castle was in private hands but often used as a prison. Prisoners included Dutch from the Second Anglo-Dutch war (1665-67) and French and their allies from the War of the Spanish Succession and the Napoleonic Wars. Some 7,000 Napoleonic prisoners were kept here with the castle being so overcrowded that they hung their hammocks from the huge floor beams high up inside the keep, often with an enormous drop beneath them should the hammock split or they fell out. Many died and were buried on the tidal mudflats where their bones still turn up today.
Today the site is in the hands of English Heritage.
Dunguaire Castle (Irish: Dún Guaire) is a 16th-century tower house on the southeastern shore of Galway Bay in County Galway, Ireland, near Kinvarra. The castle's 75 foot-tower and its defensive wall have been restored to excellent condition, and the grounds are open to tourists during the summer. It is thought to be the most-photographed castle in Ireland.
The castle was built by the Hynes clan in 1520, a family who may have been associated with the area since 662, when the site is believed to have once been the royal palace of Guaire Aidhne, the legendary king of Connacht and progenitor of the clan. Dunguaire Castle was transferred in the 17th century to Oliver Martin, (father of Richard Martin fitz Oliver). It remained in his family until it was purchased in the early 20th century by the surgeon and poet Oliver St. John Gogarty. Gogarty began restoring the castle and established it as the meeting place for the leading figures of the Celtic Revival, such as W.B. Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Augusta, Lady Gregory, and John Millington Synge.
The castle was acquired in 1954 by Christobel Lady Ampthill, who completed the restoration work started by Gogarty. It was later purchased by Shannon Development, an Irish corporation that manages numerous historic tourist attractions in Ireland. During the summer months when Dunguaire Castle is open to the public, a Medieval Banquet is held every night with costumed performers who recite Irish literature and play traditional Irish music.
Another shot of Caernarfon Castle, taken a bit later on after the Blue Hour shot, a point to remember during the winter months is that the swing bridge across the harbour is left open from 5pm till 7am the next morning, lucky I decided to park on this side of the harbour then.
Castle Stalker is a four-storey tower house or keep picturesquely set on a tidal islet on Loch Laich, an inlet off Loch Linnhe. It is about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north-east of Port Appin, Argyll, Scotland, and is visible from the A828 road about mid-way between Oban and Glen Coe.
Neuschwanstein Castle (German: Schloss Neuschwanstein, lit. New Swan Stone palace, pronounced is a 19th-century Bavarian palace on a rugged hill near Hohenschwangau and Füssen in southwest Bavaria, Germany. The palace was commissioned by Ludwig II of Bavaria as a retreat and as an homage to Richard Wagner, the King's inspiring muse. Although public photography of the interior is not permitted, it is the most photographed building in Germany and is one of the country's most popular tourist destinations.
Tourists flock to the castle, in spite of the rain. View from Hradcanske square. See also www.prague.net/prague-castle-courtyards
The bedrock on which the castle is built is visible here as is a small exit from the complex.
"Stirling Castle, located in Stirling, is one of the largest and most important castles in Scotland, both historically and architecturally. The castle sits atop Castle Hill, an intrusive crag, which forms part of the Stirling Sill geological formation. It is surrounded on three sides by steep cliffs, giving it a strong defensive position. Its strategic location, guarding what was, until the 1890s, the farthest downstream crossing of the River Forth, has made it an important fortification in the region from the earliest times.
Most of the principal buildings of the castle date from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. A few structures remain from the fourteenth century, while the outer defenses fronting the town date from the early eighteenth century.
Before the union with England, Stirling Castle was also one of the most used of the many Scottish royal residences, very much a palace as well as a fortress. Several Scottish Kings and Queens have been crowned at Stirling, including Mary, Queen of Scots, in 1542, and others were born or died there.
There have been at least eight sieges of Stirling Castle, including several during the Wars of Scottish Independence, with the last being in 1746, when Bonnie Prince Charlie unsuccessfully tried to take the castle."
Rydzyna town of Wielkopolska's region
Castle of King Stanislaw Leszczynski and The Sulkowiski Princes in Rydzyna.
The baroque castle in Rydzyna was built at the end of the XVII century on the walls of the gothic castle from the beginning of the XV cenrury, the seat of Jan of Czernina, the founder of the town of Rydzyna.It was built for the great treasurer of the crown, Rafal Leszczynski.His architect and builder was Jozef Szymon Belloti, the west wing was built in about 1700, rebuilt by The Roman Architect Pompeo Ferrari, who had settled in Rydzyna.The castle was partially burnt in 1707 during The Great Nothern War,during the forced emigration of King Stanislaw Leszczynski it was taken by King August II The Strong.Here the king received foreign ambassadors, summoned a sitting of the State Senate.In the years 1738-1909 the castle was the property of the Sulkowki Princes.Karol Margin Frantz and Ignacy Graff adapted it to the requirements of the owners.The residence in Rydzyna became famous for the numerous cultural and educational undertakings. Between the years 1928 and 1939.The castle was The Seat Of An Experimental Secondary School.The Sulkowski Gymnasium and Lyceum Boarding school,renowned for the high standard of teaching. At the and of January 1945 the castle was burnt,it was rebuilt in the years from 1970 to 1989 by the association of polish engineers and mechanical technicians.The colletion of richly ornamented reception room was reconstructed of the basis of photographic archives. The castle is open for visits one may view the artistic, historic and natural history collections. Othe external elevations the detail of the apperance of the XVII and XVIII centuries is retained.
Above the main entrance is a heraldic cartouche od The Sulkowski Princess, heraldic eagles crown the roofs of the four corner bastions. In front of the palace is the only statue of King stanislaw Leszczynski in Poland and the second in Europe on the northern side is the extensive ceremonial court yard with the buildings of the former castle annexes.
Photo of Malbork Castle in Poland.
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Castle Scarborough - the Master Gunners House, now serving teas and refreshments, was built in the early C18th as the lodgings of the Master Gunner.
Scarborough Castle, North Yorkshire.
July 2014
Maiden Castle, Dorchester, Dorset, England
Information: www.english-heritage.org.uk/daysout/properties/maiden-cas...
Braemar Castle was built in 1628 by John Erskine, 2nd Earl of Mar as his highland Hunting Lodge. The castle replaced an earlier building on the site and stones from the original are thought to have been incorporated into the new build.
This is the area where the main block and the wing intersected. The remains of a fireplace and chimney can be seen.
Hoddom Castle is a large tower house in Dumfries and Galloway, south Scotland. It is located by the River Annan, 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) south-west of Ecclefechan.
The lands of Hoddom or Hoddam belonged to the Herries family, allies of the Bruce family who were Lords of Annandale from 1124. It passed to the Carruthers family, and then to the Maxwells. At the core of the castle is an L-plan tower house, built in the 16th century. It was probably built for Sir John Maxwell, who acquired Hoddom in the mid 16th-century when he married the heiress Agnes, Lady Herries. Maxwell also built Repentance Tower, on the hill to the south, as a watchtower for the castle.
In the aftermath of the reign of Mary, Queen of Scots, the Regent Moray besieged Hoddom, which capitulated after only one day. It was briefly the base of the Warden of the Scottish West March, but was recaptured in 1569 by supporters of Queen Mary. The following year it was attacked by the English under Lord Scroop, who blew up the tower.
This tower was repaired and expanded in the 17th century to form a courtyard castle. It was acquired by Sir Richard Murray from the 6th Lord Herries, and then became the property of the Earl of Southesk in 1653. In 1690 it passed to the Sharpe family. In around 1826, General Matthew Sharpe of Hoddom commissioned William Burn to design modern extensions to the south and west of the castle. Hoddom was purchased in 1877 by the Brook family of Meltham, Huddersfield, who later bought nearby Kinmount House. Further extensions were built in a neo-Jacobean style to the north and west, some at least to designs by architects Wardrop and Anderson.
The house was requisitioned by the military during the Second World War, and was not reoccupied afterwards. In the 1970s William Burn's extensions were largely demolished. The castle now stands in the grounds of a caravan park, and the remaining 19th-century additions are used as offices.
About the Subject: Here you see an owl made out of pumpkins. I love the artistic use of colors in this picture.
About this picture: This shot was taken during the world pumpkin exhibition at one of the gardens of the Ludwigsburg castle. Taken in cloudy conditions. Therefore, it needed some exposure and color tone adjustments during post processing.