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Chateau de Roumont is located in Luxembourg, Belgium
map coordinates 49.95, 5.283333
Built in 1912, the current castle totally obliderated any trace of the original small stone house. It is locates in the Ardennes Forest which suggests the original building may have been only a quasi-fortified hunting lodge.

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Château de Lavaux-Sainte-Anne is located in Belgium.
map coordinates 50.116055, 5.091574In 1450, Jean II de Berlo commissioned the building of the castle and moat. Originally it was a single tower built in the 13th century.

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Château de Moret is a castle in the commune of Moret-sur-Loing in the Seine-et-Marne département of France.
map coordinates 48.370833, 2.818889
Originally built in the 12th century, it was substantially altered in the 17th century; but some flavor of its beginning remains.

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Chateau de Chinon is a castle located on the bank of the Vienne river in Chinon, France.
map coordinates 47.168056, 0.236111
The mount of Chinon was first fortified as a stronghold by Theobald I, Count of Blois in the year 954. In the 12th century Chinon, located in (then) County of Anjou, which was then independent of the kingdom of France, was a primary residence of Henry II (Angevin King and King of England)

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Limavady Castle, also known as O'Cahans Castle, is a ruined castle in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
map coordinates 55.024437, -6.938100
The castle was once a stronghold of the O'Cahans before the 13th century. In 1542, the MacQuillans, accompanied by James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormond, the Lord High Treasurer of Ireland and a large body of English, besieged and took the castle, slaughtering the whole garrison.

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Château Pèlerin, also known as Atlit Castle and Castle Pilgrim, is located on the northern coast of Israel.
map coordinates 32.705278, 34.933889
The Knights Templar began building it in 1218 during the Fifth Crusade. It replaced the older Castle of Le Destroit which was further inland and had been partially dismantled.
Hugh Kennedy. Crusader Castles. Cambridge University Press. 2001. ISBN 0-521-79913-9

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Thirlestane Castle is a castle set in extensive parklands near Lauder in the Borders of Scotland.
map coordinates 55.7225, -2.743611
Before the 13th century a castle was built on Castle Hill near the Leader Water, defending the southern approach to Edinburgh through Lauderdale. In the early 16th century, it passed to Robert Lauder of that Ilk. The castle was substantially extended in the 1670s by the first and only Duke of Lauderdale by adding wings to the original square keep.

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How beautiful! But it's interesting - it looks so French to me.

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Duns Castle, Duns, Berwickshire is a historic house in Scotland.
map coordinates 55.782222, -2.355833
The oldest part of the castle, the massive Norman Keep or Pele Tower, dates from 1320. Alexander Hay (killed at the battle of Waterloo) reputedly haunts the castle. So if you rent this castle, you might see him.

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Burg Rabenstein, the smallest medieval castle in Saxony , is located in Chemnitz district of Germany.
Map coordinates 50.833129, 12.818280
The castle was first mentioned as a mountain castle in 1336 in a charter of Louis of Bavaria , where he promised it to his son, Margrave Friedrich of Meissen.

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Krak des Chevaliers is a Crusader castle in Syria.
map coordinates 34.756944, 36.294444
The original castle was built in 1031 for the emir of Aleppo.[3] During the First Crusade in 1099 it was captured by Raymond IV of Toulouse. Since 2006, the castle of Krak des Chevaliers has been recognised by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.

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Chinchilla de Monte-Aragón, more commonly just Chinchilla, is a castle in the province of Albacete in Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.
map coordinates 38.919002, -1.728601
Its origin dates back to the Muslim period. Chinchilla was reconquered by the Infante Don Alfonso with the help of Calatrava in 1241. Today much of the original city walls still lie below the castle on the south side of the town.

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Burg Rabenstein is a castle in the heart of Franconian Switzerland.
map coordinates 49.822263, 11.370684
The castle records show that it was built in 1188 by Eschwin de Rabenstein. Today this medieval castle is a hotel and also hosts a medieval market (What we would call a Ren Faire).

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Dalaborg is a ruined castle in Sweden.
map coordinates 58.603333, 12.605556
The castle is mentioned in records as being built in 1304 by the Dukes Valdemar and Erik in the context of the conflicts with the king Birger Magnusson.

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Qasr al-Heer al-Sharqi is located in the middle of the Syrian Desert.
map coordinates  35.073889, 39.071111
It was built by Umayyad caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik in 728-29 CE in an area rich in desert fauna. This site was added to the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List on June 8, 1999 in the Cultural category.