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Puth castle is a castle in Voerendaal in The Netherlands.map coordinates 50.888548, 5.925489The original building was constructed with its moat system in the 14th century by the Knights of Puth. What you see today is mostly an 18th century building on the 14th century foundations.[img width=600…[Read more]

Helfstyn is a castle 15 km east of P?erov, in Central Moravia, Czech Republic.map coordinates 49.518611, 17.628889The castle was probably established at the end of the 13th century by the marauding knight Fridus (or Helfrid) of Linava who used the castle as a base for robbing merchants during the unsettled times that followed the murder of…[Read more]

Castle Crine is located in County Clare, Ireland.map coordinates 52.758338, -8.756016The original castle was simply a round tower. In the eighteenth century, the Butler family incorporated it into a large mansion. Its somehow poetic that the only portion still standing is a part of the round tower. The property is privately owned and the restored…[Read more]

Pride of place for last castle of the year goes to Erchless.Erchless Castle is an L-plan castle in northern Scotland, near Struy.map coordinates 57.4297, -4.6493Built in the 13th century by the Bissetts, it became into the hands of the Chisholms the 15th century, via the marriage of Alexander de Chisholme to Margaret, Lady of…[Read more]

Castle Ceklís ruins are located on the outskirts of Bernolakovo, Slovakia.map coordinates 48.199953, 17.288022The castle probably was built in the Thirteenth Century, but is now in ruins. What appears to be a castle tower is actually a water tank made from the castle ruins in the Twentieth Century. A few bits and pieces of the original castle…[Read more]

Château de Karreveld is located in Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, Belgium.map coordinates 50.860350, 4.315420Originally built in the early middle ages, the castle remains in private hands, spending time as a hotel, and then as a restaurant. Much rebuilding has left very little of the early construction, including most of the moats.

Kipfenberg Castle is a castle on a steep slope in the district of Eichstätt in Bavaria,Germany.map coordinates 48.948466, 11.397490The castle was built in the 12th Century and was built in 1277 in the possession of the Knights Kropf.

Castle Numão is located in the village of the same name in Portugal.map coordinates 41.099722, -7.29The early human occupation of the site dates back to its pre-history, Neolithic. It is believed that one Castrum of Lusitanos Celts that was here was later Romanized . With the Muslim invasion of the Iberian Peninsula, these conquerors also erected…[Read more]

Vaduz Castle is the palace and official residence of the Prince of Liechtenstein.map coordinates 47.139444, 9.524444The earliest mention of the castle can be found in the deed of Count Rudolf von Werdenberg-Sargans for a sale to Ulrich von Matsch. The erstwhile owners in 1322- presumably also the builders – were the Counts of Werdenberg-Sargans.…[Read more]

Castle Karpniki, or Karpnikach, is a castle located in the village Karpniki in Poland.map coordinates 50.846517, 15.849944The castle was built in the fourteenth century, probably by Henry Czirna

Castello de Loriano is located in Marcianise, Italy.map coordinates 41.024271, 14.299475The castle is first documented in 1506, although the construction appears to be from about a generation previous. The Baron Francesco Brancaccio was in dispute with the citizens over the market square.The castle is now a private residence.

Goslar castle lies at the foot of the Rammelsberg mountain in the south of the city of Goslar, Germany.map coordinates 51.902778 , 10.425833The exact build date of the oldest building is not really known. On 11 November 1050 is Henry IV was born in the Palatinate district in the castle. Goslar is one of the castles also known as Konigspfalz or…[Read more]

Dankwarderode Castle in Braunschweig is a Saxon lowland castle in Germany.map coordinates 52.26472, 10.52417Dankwarderode Castle was built between 1160 and 1175 as the Seat of Duke Henry the Lion on an island in the river Oker. In satellite photos you can see how the river was re-routed to make 18th and 19th century fortifications around the inner city.

The Château de Suscinio or de Susinio was built to be the residence of the Dukes of Brittany.map coordinates 47.512778, -2.729444Designed to be a place of leisure, between the seaside and a forest full of game for hunting, the castle's first logis seigneurial (seigniorial house) dates from the beginning of the 13th century. The castle was…[Read more]

Château d'Airvault is a castle in Airvault in the region Poitou-Charentes, France.map coordinates 46.8275, -0.138056Airvault The castle was built on top of an ancient Roman castrum, probably in various stages, beginning in the 10th century and through the 11th…[Read more]

Clifford Castle is a castle in the village of Clifford which lies four miles to the north of Hay-on-Wye in England.map coordinates 52.10443, -3.10666The early motte and bailey castle was built on a cliff overlooking a ford on the River Wye in 1070 by William Fitzpond. Clifford Castle was the home of Walter Fitz Richard's daughter Rosamund…[Read more]

Château de Ruthie is located in Aquitaine, in the Pyrenees.Map coordinates 43.149717, 0.934134You have to love the name, although I'm sure it means something quite different in Langue d'oc. The castle originally dates from the 11th century. Today a little less than half…[Read more]

Qasr Allam is a ruined fortification in Egypt, in the Libyan Desert.map coordinates 28.341815, 28.822237The site itself was built before millennia ago and has been built on top of and rebuilt many times. Kamose, the last ruler of the Seventeenth Dynasty (r. 1555–1550 BCE) rested at this oasis with his troops while campaigning against the Hyksos (…[Read more]

Krumlov Castle is located in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic.map coordinates 48.812890, 14.314833 Construction of the town and castle began in the late 13th century at a ford in the Vltava River, which was important in trade routes in Bohemia. In 1302 the town and castle were owned by the House of Rosenberg.

Halshany or Holszany Castle is situated in Halshany, Hrodna Voblast, Belarus.map coordinates 54.251264, 26.020292The most visible ruins were built in 1610, partially on top of an older castle, by the Holszanski princely family. On satellite photos, you can make out part of the footprint of the castle, that probably was built in the thirteenth…[Read more]