Castles!- Large Photos

[DonaCatalina]

Castillo de Andrade, also referred to as the Castillo de Castillo de Campolongo or Castillo de Nogueirosa, is located in the region of Galicia, Spain.
map coordinates 43.391643, -8.135408
The origin of this castle is linked to Fernan Perez Andrade, who faced down the prior of the monastery of Santa Maria de Sobrado, Fray Esteban Sejas, because of its construction. The prior refused to build the castle, suing to paralyze the works for his own reasons. Two years after its construction in 1379, the Castilian monarch Juan County, I joined the lordship of Villalba Andrade and El Ferrol.

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Kasteel Middachten stands in the Dutch village Alley  stands in the Dutch village of Alley.
map coordinates 52.019167, 6.069722
Middachten was first mentioned in 1190 as a property of James the Mithdac. At the beginning of the 14th century Everardus Middachten was given the castle as an asset for protection by Reinald Count of Guelders.

[GryffinSong]

Ooh, those two before the last one are particularly wonderful. I'm a big fan of great, old stone piles of castles. I especially love that we can see some of the inner rooms of the Castle of Vimianzo.

[DonaCatalina]

Golanczy Castle is located in Golanczy Poland.
map coordinates 52.943988, 17.305314
The earliest surviving records show that the castle was owned by the wealthy Palukow Family. It is likely that e representative of Bishop of Wloclawek built the castle which was later inherited by the bishop's nephew. There was a mass grave from the middle of the Seventeenth century, that archaeologists found in the courtyard of the castle in Golanczy near Wagrowiec. The researchers speculate that these are the remains of the defenders of the castle, killed by the Swedes.

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Castelo de Chaves is a castle in Portugal.
map coordinates 41.739444, -7.471667
The early human occupation of the region dates back to prehistory, certainly going back to a castro pre-Roman at the time of the Roman invasion of the Iberian Peninsula. At the time of the Reconquista of the Iberian peninsula , Chaves was initially taken from the Moors by Alfonso III of León (866-910), which would have given a reconstruction of their defenses. This castle is attributed to Count Odoário in the ninth century.

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Nis Fortress is located in the city of Nis, Serbia.
map coordinates 43.3259, 21.8954
Most of the current structure is Turkish in origin from the eighjteenth century. The fortifications are built on foundations of Roman, Byzantine and Medieval structures. Ongoing excavations continue to reveal more details.

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The ruins of Spis Castle in eastern Slovakia form one of the largest castle sites in Central Europe.
map coordinates 49.000556, 20.768333
Spis Castle was built in the 12th century on the site of an earlier castle. The castle was originally a Romanesque stone castle with fortifications, probably built on the site of a late Roman Castrum, which may have been an earlier oppidum.

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Lindek castle is a ruin above Lindek, a settlement in the Vojnik municipality in eastern Slovenia.
map coordinates 46.352393, 15.325306
It is first mentioned in written documents dating to 1264, but was extended and rebuilt in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries. It was abandoned in the 18th century.

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Castro Elviña, or Castro Corunna, is located in San Vicente de Elviña, Galicia, Spain.
Map coordinates 43.329771, -8.416204
The fortifications are Celtic in origin with some unique differences going back some centuries BC, including a fountain and pools, or cisterns. In the excavations carried out in 2002-2003, there was evidence that the fort was much bigger than previously thought, with an approximate area of about 7-8 hectares and a population of about 2,000 inhabitants around the year 50 AD .

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Maceda Castle is located in the city of Maceda ,in Spain.
map coordinates 42.270555, -7.659077
The castle was built in the last part of the eleventh century as a simple donjon. Later was enlarged and it became the dower propert of María Fernández, daughter of the Count of Trava abd the Countess of Portugal, Teresa de Leão. If I read the notation right, the castle is now a bed and breakfast.

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Muttenz is a municipality in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland that is blessed with several sets of castle ruins.
map coordinates 47.520412, 7.655103
In 1306 the village became the property of the Münch of Münchenstein, who fortified the village church of St. Arbogast with a rampart at the beginning of the 15th century, after their fortresses on the nearby Wartenberg were partially destroyed in the devastating Basle earthquake of 1356. There are the ruins of Hintere Wartenberg Castle, ruins of Mittlere Wartenberg Castle, and ruins of Vordere Wartenberg Castle.
The oldest dating back to 1200, from west to east along the ridgeline.
Hintere Wartenberg








Mittlere Wartenberg








Vordere Wartenberg

[Godric]

Dona Catalina- thanks for this thread! It is so interesting to get to see them, I'm glad you have spent the time doing this for us.

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Halabiye is an archaeological site on the right bank of the Euphrates in Deir ez-Zor Governorate, Syria.
map coordinates 35.689444, 39.8225
The earliest description is found in the De Aedificiis ("On Buildings") by Procopius, who described the fortress in the 6th century CE. Halabiye was fortified in the 3rd century CE by Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, after whom the site was named in antiquity.

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Medzhybizh Castle is situated at the confluence of the Southern Bug and Buzhenka rivers, in the town of Medzhybizh, Ukraine.
map coordinates 49.436561, 27.412086
The castle was built as a bulwark against Ottoman expansion in 1540.

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Borve Castle, also known as Castle Wearie, and Caisteal Bhuirgh in Scottish Gaelic, is located at the south-west of the island of Benbecula, in the Western Isles of Scotland.
map coordinates 57.430547, -7.377219
MacGibbon and Ross attributed the building of the tower to Amie mac Ruari, wife of John of Islay, and dated it to between 1344 and 1363. But archeological evidence suggests that it pre-dated her by quite a bit.