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Castle Howard, where the BBC series and the 2008 movie "Brideshead Revisited" were filmed is a magnificent house set in 1,000 acres of land. The surroundings are absolutely stunning. So much to there it definitely takes more than one trip to see all. Well worth multiple visits!!
The family room
This castle which has wooden tower is one of the four Japanese national treasure castles.
Matsumoto-Jo Castle, Nagano, JAPAN
Ruins of a castle, which is known since the 9th century. In 1809 it was blown up by Napoleon's army. It is located on a cliff over the rivers Morava and Danube, in the southest part of the mountains Male Karpaty.
castle amerongen, amerongen, nl
The history of Amerongen is closely related to that of Castle Amerongen. This castle was first established in 1286 as a wooden donjon but was rebuilt in stone. It was attacked or destroyed by fire and rebuilt several times during the following centuries. In 1672 the Netherlands were invaded by the French army and in early 1673, the castle was deliberately burned down as a punishment for non-payment of taxes levied by the French. Shortly afterwards the castle was rebuilt, under the capable supervision of Margaretha Turnor, wife of Van Reede, owner of the castle and special envoy to the court of Brandenburg at this time. The newly built and extended castle, arose in the Dutch Classisist style and, although the grounds and gardens were remodelled at various time and the interior brought up to date by Cuyper in the early twentieth century, it remains a prime example of this style.
I took a few other photos of the castle from different spots when I took my project photo.......this shows a wider view.
here are a couple with the silage bales.....it was a lovely sunny day, I used my new circular polariser - it brought out the lovely greens and enhanced the blue of the sky.
Threave Castle is situated on an island in the River Dee, 2.5 kilometres (1.6 mi) west of Castle Douglas in Dumfries and Galloway, south-west Scotland.
Built in the 1370s by Archibald the Grim, it was a stronghold of the "Black Douglases", Earls of Douglas and Lords of Galloway, until their fall in 1455. For part of this time, the castle and the lordship of Galloway were controlled by Princess Margaret, daughter of King Robert III and widow of the 4th Earl. In 1449 Threave was regained by the 8th earl, Scotland's most powerful magnate, who controlled extensive lands and numerous castles. He fortified Threave with an "artillery house", a sophisticated defence for its time. The excessive power of the Black Douglas lords led to their overthrow by King James II in 1455, after which Threave was besieged and captured by the King's men.
It became a royal castle, and in the 16th century hereditary responsibility for Threave was given to the Lords Maxwell. It was briefly held by the English in the 1540s, but did not see serious action until the Bishops' Wars, when in 1640 a royalist garrison was besieged by a force of Covenanters. Partially dismantled, the castle remained largely unused until given into state care in 1913. The ruins, comprising the substantially complete tower house and the L-shaped artillery house, are today maintained by Historic Environment Scotland as a scheduled monument.
This castle is near North Berwick, east of Edimburg, on the Firth of Forth.
During my visits to Scotland, I made many analogic pictures.
In order to put them in my computer, I had to scan them.
The result is not too bad.
Here is one of them.
Grafton Tyler Brown, Castle Geyser, Yellowstone, 1890. Oil paint on canvas; 21.125 x 14.375 in. The William Sr. and Dorothy Harmsen Collection at the Denver Art Museum, by exchange, 2020.657.
Middleham Castle was built by Robert Fitzrandolph, 3rd Lord of Middleham and Spennithorne in 1190, on about on or about the site of an earlier motte and bailey castle and is now in the hands of English Heritage.
In 1270 the castle came into the hands of the Neville family, the most notable member of which was Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, known to history as the "Kingmaker".
Following the death of Richard, Duke of York, at Wakefield in December 1460, his younger sons, George, Duke of Clarence, and Richard, Duke of Gloucester, came into Warwick's care, and both lived at Middleham with Warwick's own family. Their brother King Edward IV was imprisoned at Middleham for a short time, having been captured by Warwick in 1469. Following Warwick's death at Barnet in 1471 and Edward's restoration to the throne, his brother Richard married Anne Neville, Warwick's younger daughter, and made Middleham his main home. Their son Edward was also born at Middleham and later also died there.
Richard ascended to the throne as King Richard III, but spent little or no time at here during his two-year reign. Richard was said to be particularly fond of Middleham, preferring it to any of his other castles. The round tower at the south-west corner of the curtain wall, traditionally known as the Prince's Tower, is said to be where Richard's son Prince Edward was born and died. After Richard's death at Bosworth in 1485 the castle remained in royal hands until the reign of James I, when it was sold, in 1604 to Sir Henry Linley, who made some repairs and lived there until his death in 1610 when his daughter Jane Linley then inherited the castle. In 1613 Jane married Edward, 2nd Viscount Loftus, who occupied it until 1644. During the Civil War it was to be used as a prison.
In 1646 Parliament ordered the east range wall be destroyed along with most of the wall-walks, thus leaving the castle the shell it is today.
In 1662 it was sold to Edward Wood, his family owning the castle until 1889. It was then sold to Samuel Cunliffe-Lister, 1st Lord Masham, and was inherited by the second Lord Masham in 1906. In 1925 the Office of Works, later to become English Heritage, acquired the castle.
Conserved ruins of a late 13th Century castle on a hill in a long and tight valley. The builders formerly colonized western Bohemia, and when they secured eastern Bohemia, they built new castles which they named after those in the West, there is also another Litice Castle (almost non-existent today). This castle mas a major strongpoint in the area for the next centuries, besieged and damaged in 1421, rebuilt and extended after 1450. It lost importance in the 16th Century, only the most basic personal maintained it, it´s seen as half demolished on a 1657 illustration, and last repairs were made in 1681. The northern palace was saved when it got a new roof in 1776, but the southern palace was left to it´s faith. Conservations of the remaining buildings and walls were done between 1890 and 1935, the preserved remains show that it was indeed a well built and durable fortress. The ruin was closed for some years due bad statics in the 1980´s, and reopened only after basic stabilization, a palace wall partially collapsed in 2015 and the castle still needs rescue efforts.
...in one of the spires of Warsaw Castle.
Rok 1974, czasy Gierka, czyli "Stać nas na drugi Zamek" (Głowacki).
Warsaw, June 2011
Donnington Castle near Newbury, Berkshire was a Royalist stronghold during the first and second battles of Newbury during the Civil War, The Newbury area has been the scene of more recent "battles", in the 1980's when peace campaigners demonstrated at the nearby US nuclear airbase at Greenham Common and again in 1990's when environmentalists protested against the construction of the Newbury Bypass.
Vita Sackville-West, the poet and writer, began transforming Sissinghurst Castle in the 1930s with her diplomat and author husband, Harold Nicolson. Harold's architectural planning of the garden rooms, and the colourful, abundant planting in the gardens by Vita, reflect the romance and intimacy of her poems and writings.
Sissinghurst Castle was the backdrop for a diverse history; from the astonishing time as a prison in the 1700s, to being a home to the women’s land army. It was also a family home to some fascinating people who lived here or came to stay. Today you can take in the ruined architecture of the extensive original buildings, vast panoramic views from the top of the Tower, the current working farm and the 450-acre wider estate along with Vita and Harold's gardens.
Taken from: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/sissinghurst-castle/
800th anniversary of the siege of Rochester castle. We caught the practice event, and a single photo doesn't really do it justice. First you see the whole outline of the castle, then there is a flash, and the left hand tower collapses - apparently mirroring what happened during the siege, and the event that resulted in Rochester castle now having 3 square and one round tower.