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Marsvinsholm castle, Skåne, Sweden
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Aragonese Castle (Italian: Castello Aragonese) is a castle built on a small tidal island east of Ischia (one of the Phlegraean Islands), at the northern end of the Gulf of Naples, Italy. The castle stands on a volcanic rocky islet that connects to the larger island of Ischia by a causeway (Ponte Aragonese).
1066 - Normans invaded England taking battle at Hastings. William de Warenne fought in the battle and was rewarded by an estate at Acre in Norfolk among other riches.
The locals of Acre soon saw the impact of their new overlord – a castle and a Cluniac priory. The present building was started at around 1090 with the church given priority.
Here we are in the nave looking from the chancel towards the west front. The west front is the best preserved part and is considered one of England's finest.
Sadly the interior suffered badly after the 1530s dissolution of the monasteries. The finely dressed facing stones were removed over the centuries for building material. What now remain are chalk, flint and rubble cores.
More views of the Castle.
Criccieth is a town and community on the LlÅ·n Peninsula in the Eifionydd area of Gwynedd in Wales. The town lies 5 miles west of Porthmadog, 9 miles east of Pwllheli and 17 miles south of Caernarfon. It had a population of 1,826 in 2001, reducing to 1,753 at the 2011 census.
The morning sun lights up Castle Mountain in Banff National Park in Alberta. Taken from the Bow River.
Engelstein Castle, locally known as Burg Engelstein, lies in the village of the same name, in a province of Lower Austria in Austria.
Engelstein Castle was first mentioned in 1417. However, the castle is probably much older. It is probable that at first it was a simple watch tower, guarding a nearby road crossing. It was situated on a granite cliff surrounded on 3 sides by small lakes.
At present Engelstein Castle is privately inhabited and can thus not be visited. It can relatively easily be seen from the public road.
Lindisfarne Castle, Holy Island. Fortifications here date back to the 16th Century. Rebuilt and expanded over the centuries by various Kings and Queens it was bought by the publishing tycoon Edward Hudson in 1901 who had Sir Edwin Lutyens renovate and alter it into a country home. A cloud bank, hanging off shore, can be seen behind it.
An iconic peak on the drive between Lake Louise and Banff.
"The mountain was named in 1858 by James Hector for its castle-like appearance. From 1946 to 1979 it was known as Mount Eisenhower in honour of the World War II general Dwight D. Eisenhower. Public pressure caused its original name to be restored, but a pinnacle on the southeastern side of the mountain was named Eisenhower Tower."
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Eisenhower Tower juts out prominently from this perspective.
Thanks for taking a peak peek!
The Stunning Scaliger Castle is located in the Italian lakeside town of Sirmione. Sirmione is a comune and town located in the province of Brescia in the region of Lombardy. Sirmione has a beautiful historic center which is situated on top of a small peninsula that juts out into the southern portion of Lake Garda. The Scaliger Castle is considered one of the finest examples of a medieval fortifications, including a very rare fortified port.
The Castle of Mey (also known for a time as Barrogill Castle) is located in Caithness, on the north coast of Scotland, about 6 miles (10 km) west of John o' Groats.
This home was previously owned by the Queen Mother and was a Royal Residence in the far North of Scotland.
Raby Castle is a medieval castle located near Staindrop in County Durham, England, among 200 acres of deer park. It was built by John Neville, 3rd Baron Neville de Raby, between approximately 1367 and 1390. Cecily Neville, the mother of the Kings Edward IV and Richard III, was born here. It is the seat of the Vane family & currently home to the 12th Baron Barnard.
Graz, Eggenberg quarter. Aerial drone photo made by Stefan P., a friend of mine. The baroque castle, mainly built between 1623 and 1655, is a world cultural heritage.
In a small forest, on Grodno Hill (504 m above sea level), there is a hunting lodge built in 1806, named after its owner and founder, Prince Henry's Castle (German: Heinrichsburg).
The construction work took a long time - in 1818 a tower was erected more than 15 metres high with a 77-step staircase leading to the top. Construction was completed in 1841 and the building, topped by a gabled roof, housed the knights' Hunting Hall.
The palace's neo-Gothic form was extremely fashionable at the time, an expression of a sentimental predilection for composing atmospheric places full of poetic symbolism. The creation of the tower was probably due to the jealousy of Henrik von Reuss towards the ancestral Chojnik castle of the Schaffgotschs.
From the top of the tower, there is a breathtaking view of almost the entire Krkonoše range (from Sněžka to Snowy Cirques) and surrounding towns
Dunster Castle is a former motte and bailey castle, now a country house, in the village of Dunster, Somerset, England. The castle lies on the top of a hill called the Tor, and has been fortified since the late Anglo-Saxon period. After the Norman Conquest of England in the 11th century.
Built by King Henry II betwen 1165 and 1173. The Castle overlooks Orford Ness on the Suffolk coast.
Only the Keep is left, as the Bailey, consisting of a Curtain Wall surrounding the Keep, was demolished several Centuries ago.
Now owned, renovated, and cared for by English Heritage
Hever Castle is the ancestral home of the Boleyn family. the best known of the family was Anne who was the second wife of henry V111.
At the top of the castle lies the Stone of Eloquence, better known as the Blarney Stone. Tourists visiting Blarney Castle may hang upside-down over a sheer drop to kiss the stone, which is said to give the gift of eloquence. A Must see location!
Surrounding the castle are extensive gardens. The grounds include a poison garden with numerous poisonous plants, including wolfsbane, mandrake, ricin and opium, as well as cannabis.
Along with over half a mile of town walls, Denbigh Castle is a classic fortress of Edwardian proportions. Edward I’s successful 13th-century campaign in the region was cemented by the creation of an English borough in Denbigh from 1282 onwards. He simply built on top of what was a traditional Welsh stronghold. In so doing, he made sure all traces of Dafydd ap Gruffudd, the previous unlucky incumbent, were removed for ever.
Henry de Lacy, one of the King’s loyal commanders, was given control of the area and had the task of building the new castle. He couldn’t go far wrong with the king’s master mason, James of St George, at his side. It wasn’t all plain sailing however. A Welsh rebellion, led by Madog ap Llywelyn, captured the partly-built castle in 1294 but Edward’s dominance and the castle-building programme were soon restored. You can see for yourself the two phases of building work. The post-rebellion work is marked by different colour stone, thicker curtain walls and a hint of Caernarfon-style angular towers.
Sizergh Castle, a Grade I Listed 14th century castle at Helsington, near Kendal, in the Lake District National Park, seen from beside the Apsidal Niche at the end of the Fruit Wall.
The Solar Tower is the oldest part of the castle. The Fruit Wall is above the south lawn and provides a home to colourful dahlias as well as support to pears and grapes.
Bamburgh Castle, on the northeast coast of England, by the village of Bamburgh in Northumberland, is a Grade I listed building.
Raby Castle is a medieval castle located near Staindrop in County Durham, England, among 200 acres of deer park. It was built by John Neville, 3rd Baron Neville de Raby, between approximately 1367 and 1390. Cecily Neville, the mother of the Kings Edward IV and Richard III, was born here. It is the seat of the Vane family & currently home to the 12th Baron Barnard.
One from ny trip with the kids to Castle Sween.
This was right on the caravan park so was rude not to have a go at shooting the castle.
The colours and light never really happened but wuite like the mood of the shot.
Some great coastline in this area so I will need to return one day
Castle Combe - a quintessentially English village which some claim is the prettiest village in England..seen here on a Sunday morning before the crowds arrived...although I think he's a local !
Castle Rising builf in 1140 in Norfolk. Taken atop the inner of two defensive earthworks. The central Norman keep is little changed and is one of England's finest.
Compton Castle is a fortified manor house in Devon, a few miles from Torquay.
Origiinally the manor house was built in the mid-14th century. The fortress-like front was added about 1520. Although some of the building was in ruins by the 18th century, restoration of the central hall was completed during the 1950s prior to coming into the hands of the National Trust. It is listed as a Grade 1 set of buildings.
Dunguaire Castle is a 16th-century tower house on the southeastern shore of Galway Bay in County Galway, Ireland, near Kinvara The name derives from the Dun of King Guaire, the legendary king of Connacht.
Dunguaire Castle was used in the 1969 Walt Disney movie Guns in the Heather, featuring Kurt Russell, in which the castle was featured as Boyne Castle.
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In 1385 regent Albrecht van Beieren took over possession of the castle and appointed his trustee Brunstijn van Herwijnen as the castle's keeper. At this time the castle was strengthened but when this Brunstijn became to powerful the castle was besieged for 15 days by another trustee of Albrecht; Willem van Oostervant. During this siege a corner tower and part of the curtain wall had collapsed. Willem gained the castle's fief as a reward.
After his death in 1417 he was succeeded by his daughter Jacoba van Beieren. She then used the castle for the first time as a prison for political opponents. Until 1449 there was a lot of turmoil in the regions politics and a couple of keepers succeeded one another. During the following hundred years the castle saw some skirmishes but nothing major.
In 1570 the castle was taken by cunning; 8 Calvinist rebels disguised as monks, managed to get into the castle and quickly shot the keeper of the castle. Two days later they were joined by another 10 of their fellows. The plan was to wait for reinforcements coming from Germany and try to take over the nearby cities of Woudrichem and Gorinchem to rebel against the then Spanish rule under Count Alva. Alas, the reinforcements never made it because of wintery conditions and a small Spanish army recaptured the castle after a short siege. The rebel leader committed suicide by setting fire to his room. The Spanish later decapitated his corpse and nailed his head to the gallows in 's-Hertogenbosch.
From then until 1589 the castle changed hands between the Spanish and the rebels (called the 'Geuzen') once more and never came under Spanish rule again.
From 1614 on the castle was used as a state prison. In 1619 a famous Dutch scholar; Hugo de Groot, was imprisoned in the castle together with his wife and daughter to serve a life term sentence. In 1621 however he managed to escape from the castle by hiding in a big wooden bookcase which was being brought out of the castle.
Hugo de Groot (1583-1645) was 48 when the Delft artist Van Miereveld painted his portrait in 1631. The internationally famous jurist Grotius, the Latin version of the name adopted by De Groot, had returned to the Dutch Republic in the autumn of 1631. After his spectacular escape in 1621 from Loevestein Castle where he had been serving a life sentence since 1619, he had fled to France. Back in the Republic he hoped to be able to continue his life unmolested. However, after half a year, arrest was immanent and once again De Groot fled. This painting is one of several copies of the portrait. The fate of the original is no longer known.
Other prisoners were: a captured English vice-admiral; George Ayscue (1666), several Dutch mayors who surrendered their towns to the French without fighting (1700's) and during the French occupation until 1813, Spanish, Russian and English prisoners of war.
Other occupants were a battalion of Scottish mercenaries around 1750 who left some murals in their living quarters.
In the 16th century an earthwork fortress was put up around the castle of which some can still be seen today. In the 19th century the castle was incorporated into a new and enlarged earthwork fortress which made the castle an important stronghold in the New Holland Waterline (a line of defensive works using water throughout the western part of Holland). Loevestein Castle lost its military function in 1952.