One sentence in a Dutch jurist's 1587 travel diary is the oldest trace of the hostile brothers legend at Sterrenberg Castle above the Rhine. The wall said to divide them is Trier work, not the brothers', and sources disagree on its date. What legend does your region repeat? #Castles #History

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Fun Fact: Wales has more castles per square mile than anywhere else in the world. 🏰

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Château de Brézé is two castles. The white one above was remade in neo-Gothic from the 1850s. The one below was cut into the tuffeau: a dry moat about 18 meters deep, a guardroom with gun-ports, an underground drawbridge, a bakery, and working wine cellars. Down first, or up? #Castles #History

📍 Egeskov Castle, Funen, Denmark 🇩🇰

A 1554 Renaissance water castle, built on oak foundations, with secret stairs and a well inside its thick walls.

It still feels like a real home.

Would you cross the moat?

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Château de Peyrepertuse runs nearly 300 meters along a limestone crest, 800 meters above sea level. Locals call it the stone ship. Filed as a Cathar castle, it is the fortress the French crown built once the heresy was crushed. Tell us the castle you were sold as Cathar. #Castles #History

You can read both jobs in one wall. The north face of the Weckmund keep carries blocks shattered and reddened by the 1466 fire, and beside them the lifting holes the masons cut to hoist each block into place. Tell me which you find first. #Castles #History

They began as one fortress, seat of the counts of Nordgau. Bruno, born in 1002, grew up inside these walls and became Pope Leo IX, the only pope raised in an Alsatian castle. A marriage in 1080 split the hill, and each heir dug his own ditch. #Castles #History

Six deniers. A miller's debt of six deniers set off a war in 1466 between Mulhouse and a league of Alsatian nobles, and inside a day three castles on one ridge above Eguisheim were burning. Nobody rebuilt them. How the ridge came to hold three at all, below. #Castles #History

Friedrich Wilhelm IV meant the Orangery at Sanssouci to anchor a two-kilometer avenue in homage to Rome. What stands is a fragment of it, 304 meters end to end. 1848 ended the rest, and a decade of strokes finished the king. Come in autumn, when the citrus trees roll in. #Castles #History

Norman castles shaped local life for centuries - from defence to administration. Restoration and community programmes help visitors explore these sites and the stories they hold.

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Moyry Castle.

Lord Mountjoy built this castle in June 1601 to secure the Moyry Pass. Captain Anthony Smith was appointed constable and left with twelve men to guard the strategic gap between Newry and Dundalk.

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Victor Hugo counted three castles above Trechtingshausen in 1842. Two were one: the ruin he called Vaugtsberg, and the Rheinstein a Prussian prince bought in 1823 and had rebuilt by 1829. Tell them apart from the water. https://stonekeepatlas.com/castles/rheinstein-castle/ #Castles #History

As the Bayeux Tapestry returns to England for the first time in nearly 1,000 years, take a tour of eight historic sites that show the impact of the Norman Conquest across the country.
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Wrangle Hall was a medieval moated manor house built in the 14th or 15th century. It was held by the Wrangle family, after whom the village is named. The church in the picture stands in this historic parish.

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Castle Combe, Wiltshire.

The faceless clock in St Andrew's tower was turned upside down after 1670 to fit a pendulum. It now sits in the nave, its moving parts painted bright orange.

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Silver tears, crowns of thorns, widow's cords, painted across the walls. Louise de Lorraine moved in after Henri III was killed in 1589, stayed 11 years, then left Chenonceau for Moulins. It is upstairs now, rebuilt round its ceiling. Which would you look for, tears or thorns? #Castles #History

Bury Mount, West Northamptonshire.

This 11th-century Norman fortification sits right next to Towcester Town Hall. The town hall's foundation stone was laid by the Earl of Pomfret on 8 September 1865.

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Pontefract Castle, Wakefield.

King Richard II is thought to have died in this castle. The site also endured a series of sieges during the 17th-century English Civil War.

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Château de Châteaubriant is an architectural smorgasbord with a long history. Take a brief tour of this amazing place at the link below! #francetravel #medievalplaces #castles #travel

Clavering Castle.

In Clavering, the castle earthworks predate the Norman Conquest. Built no later than 1052, they are rare Anglo-Saxon ringworks. This ancient stronghold sits just north of the village church.

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