European Castles
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Eltz Castle
ヴィーアシェム · DE
Held by one family for 850 years — the unconquered medieval castle of the Eifel hills
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Bodiam Castle
ボディアム · GB
Four corner towers mirrored in still water — England's most picturesque medieval moated castle
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Royal Castle in Warsaw
ワルシャワ · PL
Phoenix risen from total destruction, the Baroque palace housing the soul of the Kingdom of Poland
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Stirling Castle
スターリング · GB
On a volcanic crag — the Scottish royal fortress where Mary, Queen of Scots was crowned in 1542
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Toompea Castle
タリン · EE
Medieval Danish Crusader fortress crowning Tallinn's Old Town, home of Estonia's parliament
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Sforza Castle
ミラノ · IT
Residence of Visconti and Sforza, ceiling painted by Leonardo da Vinci — Milan's grandest fortress
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Durham Castle
City of Durham · GB
A Norman fortress above the Wear, a living college since 1837 and World Heritage Site since 1986
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Hohenzollern Castle
Bisingen · DE
The ancestral seat of imperial Hohenzollern, a Neo-Gothic dream crowning the Swabian Jura
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Spiš Castle
ジェフラ · SK
Central Europe's largest 3.9-hectare castle ruin — a UNESCO sky fortress on a travertine bluff
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Reales Alcázares
セビリア · ES
A thousand-year palace where Mudejar artistry meets the world's oldest still-living royal residence
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Nesvizh Castle
ミンスク州 · BY
A yellow Baroque palace of the Radziwill dynasty, inscribed by UNESCO in 2005
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Kernavė
Širvintos District Municipality · LT
The first capital of pagan Lithuania — UNESCO's mound-locked "Troy of Lithuania"
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Chillon Castle
Veytaux · CH
Where Byron's verse made a medieval Swiss castle echo across the world — Chillon on Lake Geneva
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Buda Castle
一区 · HU
Eight centuries of Hungarian kings, in stone above the Danube — Budapest's World Heritage palace
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Bratislava Castle
ブラチスラヴァ · SK
The 'upturned table' above the Danube — Slovakia's symbolic capital castle
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Mir Castle Complex
ミール · BY
Belarus's only castle-class World Heritage — a red-brick fusion of Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque
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Karlštejn Castle
Karlštejn · CZ
The Gothic mountain stronghold Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV built to guard the Imperial Regalia
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Bran Castle
Bran · RO
Where Dracula's legend lives — a Carpathian cliff-top fortress crowning Transylvania
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Hofburg Palace
インネレシュタット · AT
640 years of Habsburg winter rule — Europe's grand imperial palace, emperors to presidency
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Kronborg Castle
ヘルスィングウーア市 · DK
Where Hamlet wanders — the Renaissance castle on the Oresund and Shakespeare's Elsinore
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Malbork Castle
マルボルク · PL
The world's largest brick Gothic fortress — the Teutonic Knights' citadel above the Nogat
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Wartburg
アイゼナハ · DE
Where Luther translated the Bible — the World Heritage cliff-top castle that inspired Neuschwanstein
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Edinburgh Castle
シティ・オブ・エディンバラ・カウンシル · GB
Edinburgh's volcanic crown - the Scottish royal fortress that survived 26 sieges
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Castel Sant'Angelo
ローマ・カピターレ · IT
From Hadrian's mausoleum to a papal fortress — Rome's two-millennia cylindrical citadel on the Tiber
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Prague Castle
フラッチャニ · CZ
The largest ancient castle in the world — a thousand years of European power, on one hilltop
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Windsor Castle
ウィンザー・アンド・メイデンヘッド · GB
The world's oldest occupied castle, the symbolic seat of the British monarchy since 1066
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Bastille
4区 · FR
Where the French Revolution began — a vanished fortress, now a square of liberty in eastern Paris
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Tower of London
タワーハムレッツ・ロンドン特別区 · GB
950 years of royal castle from 1066, ravens, jewels and Beefeaters of the World Heritage
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Neuschwanstein Castle
シュヴァンガウ · DE
An Alpine fairytale castle by Bavaria's mad king and the original Disney princess castle
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Château de Montsoreau
モンソロー · FR
The only Loire chateau built directly in the riverbed, stage of Dumas's La Dame de Monsoreau