View allAll Photos Tagged Castle
Inuyama Castle dates back to 1537 and is designated as a national treasure in Japan. This picture was taken on my day trip to Inuyama, a small town about half an hour's train ride north of Nagoya. Inuyama is home to Japan's oldest castle and a variety of temples located on hills standing next to Kiso river running through the town.
Lochleven Castle is located on Castle Island at Kinross. Built around the 1300's it has served as both castle and prison to some notable members of the Scottish monarchy, Perhaps most famously Mary Queen Of Scots who was forced to abdicate here in favour of her son James VI.
Reached from Kinross by ferry almost exactly the same route as travelled by royalty and nobility all those years ago it is an impressive site.
Now managed by Historic Scotland
The first castle was established here in the 1120s by Geoffrey de Clinton who built most of the Norman keep and founded the nearby priory. In the early 13th century King John added an outer circuit of stone walls, and a dam to create a great lake. John of Gaunt, son of Edward III, constructed the great hall and associated apartments. In the 15th century the castle was a favoured residence of the Lancastrian kings. In 1563 Elizabeth I granted the castle to her favourite, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Elizabeth I visited Kenilworth in 1572 and 1575.
A corridor in the refurbished Hampton Court Castle, near Leominster in Herefordshire. The refurbishment was carried out by a wealthy American owner who bought the estate shortly before the Millenium and fitted out the house, presumably to his own unique vision of how an English castle should look. Unfortunately he died not long afterwards, and the estate was sold on to the present owners, who have opened it to the public.
Clouds loom over Conisbrough Castle, which is bathed in rare sunshine at the end of a wet day in South Yorkshire.
Apparently, you can't turn a corner in Ireland without some really cool stone ruins! Although I didn't get any cool pictures of The Burren landscape, due to zipping along in the bus, we did stop for this eerie castle. Leamaneh Castle was built in two main parts: the tower house on the right side was from the late 15th century and the manor house portion on the left with all the mullioned windows was added much later. The whole building has been abandoned for over two hundred years (or roughly the length of time our country has been a nation).
LAMBTON CASTLE,
These are no the best images as I had to take them on my mobile as I wasnt allowed to take them on my camera sue to a film crew being at there, and this was the only angle I could get but what an amazing place this is, not many people have photographed it due to the land being private.
Walmer Castle is an artillery fort originally constructed by Henry VIII in Walmer, Kent, between 1539 and 1540
Landscape gardens and view to Swan House folly (ca. 1777)
The royal gardens of Drottningholm in Stockholm are a magnificent example of several epochs of landscape design side-by-side, displaying both internationally influent styles and local traditions. The layout is centered on the baroque castle (by Nicodemus Tessin Sr. in 1661) and central parterre gardens, by Nicodemus Tessin Jr. and Johan Hårleman, largely preserved today after a restoration in the 1950s.
On either sides of the terraces, lime avenues, bosquets and green theatres and garden rooms that constitute the baroque backbone of the garden, different styles and epochs taking advantage of the topography of the peninsula have been added; such as the notable Chinese Pavilions and gardens (1763-69 by Carl Frederik Adelcrantz), a separate formal layout containing one of the finest examples of the anglo-chinois fashion with a small “chinese” palace, several side pavilions, aviaries, orangeries and chestnut avenues. Later additions include a “Turkish tent” pavilion for the royal guards (1781), an entire romantic landscape park section in the English tradition featuring lakes, islands, bridges, mazes and vistas focused on several follies and sculpture pieces (laid out from 1777 by Carl Frederik Adelcrantz and Fredrik Magnus Piper), and a separate small archipelago garden south of the palace with ten islands linked by bridges and a classicist boathouse.