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Alcázar de Segovia
Alcázar de Segovia es una fortificacion en piedra, situada en la ciudad de Segovia, en España. Es uno de los castillos/palacios mas distintivos en España en virtud de su forma - como la proa de un barco.
El Alcázar fue construido originalmente como una fortaleza pero sirvió de palacio real, prision estatal, Colegio Real de Artilleria y academia militar desde entonces.




Castillo de Neuschwanstein
El Castillo de Neuschwanstein es un castillo bávaro del Siglo XIX. Situado en Alemania, cerca de Hohenschwangau y Füssen al sudoeste de Bavaria, el castillo fue construido por Ludwig II, Rey de Bavaria, como refugio y homenaje de Richard Wagner, musa inspirador del Rey.




Castillo de Moritzburg
Schloss Moritzburg es un castillo barroco aleman situado en el pequeño pueblo de Moritzburg en el estado de Saxony. Está situado cerca de la ciudad de Dresden. Fué construído entre 1542 y 1546 como una residencia de caza para el Duque Moritz de Saxony.




Castillo de Peles
Peles es un castillo en Sinaia, Rumania, construido entre 1873 y 1883, considerado por algunos como el mas bello en Europa y en el mundo. El Peles fue diseñado en un estilo neo'renacentista, primero por el arquitecto aleman Wilhelm Doderer y luego por Johannes Schultz (1876-1883). Modificaciones posteriores fueron hechas entre 1893 y 1914 por el arquiecto checo Karel Liman. Fue utilizado originariamente como residencia estiva de la familia real. Sirvió, tambien, como cementerio del Rey Carol I luego de su muerte en 1914.




Palacio de Scone
El Palacio de Scone esta situado en Scone, cerca de Perth, Escocia. Fue construido en 1808 para el Conde de Mansfield por William Atkinson. Construido con piedra roja, es un clasico ejemplo del estilo Gótico Georgiano.




El Escorial, Monasterio Real de San Lorenzo el Real
El Escorial esta situado al pie del Monte Abantos en la Sierra de Guadarrama. La ubicacion, como Palacio Real, fue elegida por el Rey Philip II de España, y fue él quien ordenó la construccion del gran edificio para conmemorar la victoria de la batalla de San Quentin en 1557 contra Henry II, Rey de Francia. La piedra angular fue colocada el 23 de Abril de 1563. El diseño y construccion fueron supervisadas por Juan Bautista de Toledo, quien no vivió para presenciar la terminacion del proyecto. Con la muerte de Toledo en 1567, la direccion pasó a tu aprendiz, Juan de Herrera, bajo quien la construccion fue terminada en 1584.




Almourol Castle
The Almourol Castle is situated in a small rocky island, in the middle of the Tagus river, in Portugal. The castle was a Knights Templar stronghold used during the Reconquista. It is believed it was a primitive lusitanian redoubt and was populated from Roman times until the late Middle Ages. It is certain that in 1129, when Portuguese troops conquered the land, the castle already existed and was called Almorolan.




Chateau de Chambord
It is the largest castle in the Loire Valley, France, but was built to serve only as a hunting lodge for King François I, who maintained his royal residences at Château de Blois and at Château d’Amboise. The original design of the Château de Chambord is attributed, though with several doubts, to Domenico da Cortona, whose wooden model for the design survived long enough to be drawn by André Félibien in the seventeenth century.


Butron Castle
The Butrón Castle, located in the municipality of Gatika, Spain, was constructed in the middle of the 14C. It has witnessed the factional fights that forged the history of Bizkaia. After being abandoned for several centuries and left to deteriorate, it was restored in the 19C by the architect Mr. Francisco de Cubas, who gave the castle its present romantic appearance.


De Haar Castle (Kasteel de Haar)
Located in the Netherlands, the castle was founded in the 14th century. Between 1892 and 1912 the castle that stands today was rebuilt incorporating the original ruins.



Manzanares el Real Castle
Located in the town of Manzanares el Real, 30 miles north of Madrid. The construction of the castle began in the year 1475, at a time when Madrid had little more than 100 houses and about 300 citizens. The castle has a quadrangular plant with four towers on the corners.




Gravensteen Castle
Located in Ghent, Belgium, the present castle was built in 1180 by count Philip of Alsace and was modelled after the crusaders castles the count encountered while he participated in the second crusade. Before its construction, there stood a wooden castle on the same location, presumably built in the ninth century.




Chateau de Chenonceau
The Château de Chenonceau, near the small village of Chenonceaux, Loire Valley in France, was built on the site of an old mill on the River Cher, sometime before its first mention in writing in the 11th century. The current manor was designed by the French Renaissance architect Philibert Delorme in the 1500’s which was the third castle constructed on the site.




Belsay Castle
Belsay Castle is a 14th century medieval castle situated at Belsay, Northumberland, England. The main structure, a substantial three storey rectangular pele tower with rounded turretts and battlements was constructed about 1370, and was the home of the Middleton family.




Upper Belvedere Palace
The Belvedere is a baroque palace complex built by Prince Eugene of Savoy in the 3rd district of Vienna, Austria, south-east of the city centre. In 1717, the decision was made to build the Upper Belvedere. Construction took place between 1721 and 1722 and the interior decoration was completed the following year.





Goluchow Castle
Located in Poland, the Goluchow Castle was originally a defence structure built for Rafal Leszczynski around 1650. Later, to be turned into a stately magnate residence by Rafal’s son, Waclaw, one of the Republic of Poland - Lithuania’s most prominent citizens. Two and a half centuries later Izabela of the Czartoryskis Dzialynska, who then owned the Castle, had it restored in the style of the French Renaissance.




Bojnice Castle
Located in Slovakia, it is also one of the oldest and most distinguished of Slovak fortresses. The first written records of its existence come from 1113 in a document from the Zobor abbey. In this Latin written document King Koloman confirmed the property as belonging to the Benedictine monastery of St. Hypolita in the upper Nitra. Originally the fortress was made from wood and grew out of the older fortress. Gradually over the 13th century it was built up from stone as property of the Poznanovec family. The outer walls of the fortress were shaped according to the uneven rocky terrain, so creating the irregular outline with extended fortification.




Castle Doorwerth
Doorwerth Castle was known, in earlier times, as Dorenweerd Castle. The present spelling of its name dates from around 1800. The first, probably wooden, castle is first mentioned in 1260 when it was besieged and burned to the ground as a result. The castle was rebuilt then left in ruins 2 more times. The castle suffered heavily in 1944 when it was transformed into a cheerless ruin as a result of German destructiveness and Allied shelling. Directly after WW II a lengthy restoration followed that lasted until 1983. The Doorwerth Castle is now back to it’s 18th century state.




Lednice Castle
The present appearance of Lednice is a result of the Neo-Gothic reconstruction of 1846 - 1858, designed by Georg Wingelmüller. However, the constructional development of the present Romantic building began as early as the Middle Ages in connection with the noted House of Liechtenstein, which utilized Lednice for representation purposes since the 18th century.




Bodiam Castle
Bodiam Castle is a quadrangular castle located in East Sussex, England. It was built in 1385 by Sir Edward Dalyngrigge, a former knight of Edward III, supposedly at the request of Richard II in order to defend the surrounding area from French invasion.




Lulworth Castle
Located in Dorset, England, the Lulworth Castle is a dramatic early-17th century hunting lodge. The mock castle was built in 1607 - 10 by Thomas Howard, 3rd Viscount Blindon. He was a member of the huge Howard clan who were in great favour at the court of James I and had his principal seat at nearby Blindon Abbey.




Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte
The Chateau de Vaux le Vicomte is a French Baroque chateau located in Maincy, near Melun, in France. It was built from 1658 to 1661 for Nicolas Fouquet, Marquis de Belle-Isle (Belle-Ile-en-Mer), Viscount of Melun and Vaux, the superintendent of finances of Louis XIV




Eilean Donan Castle
Located on the small island of Eilean Donan in Scotland. The original castle was built in 1220 for Alexander II as a defence against the Vikings. In April 1719 the castle was occupied by Spanish troops attempting to start another Jacobite Rising. The castle was recaptured, and then demolished, by three Royal Navy frigates on 10–13 May 1719. The castle was restored in the years between 1919 and 1932 by Lt. Col. John MacRae-Gilstrap




Craigdarroch Castle
Craigdarroch Castle in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada is a historic, Victorian-era mansion. It was constructed in the 1890s as a family residence for the wife of wealthy coal baron Robert Dunsmuir.




Matsumoto Castle
Matsumoto Castle is one of Japan’s historic castles. Located in the city of Matsumoto, in Nagano Prefecture. It is believed much of the castle was completed in 1593-4. This castle is also called Crow Castle because of its black walls and spreading wings. It is an example of a flatland castle, not being built on a hilltop or amid rivers.











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