16 photos
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0053 - Greenan Castle
16 photos
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0052 - Doune Castle (Monty Python)
43 photos
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0051 - Portencross Castle
12 photos
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0050 - Marmaris Castle
20 photos
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0049 - Palace of the Grand Master
68 photos
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0047 - Château of Vincennes
40 photos
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0046 - Dunstaffanage Castle
7 photos
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0045 - Kilchurn Castle
32 photos
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0044 - Ardencaple Castle
7 photos
In 1923, Sir Iain Colquhoun sold the castle to Mrs. H. Macaulay-Stromberg, a wealthy American, who restored the castle and lived there until her death, in 1931. The castle then passed to Adelaide Parker Voorheis until 1935, when it passed to a consortium of developers who had constructed, in 1936-1937 a housing estate on what used to be the Tower Lawn. The castle then was requisitioned by the Royal Navy with the outbreak of World War II. In 1957 most of the castle was demolished by the government in order to build naval housing for the nearby HMNB Clyde (Faslane Naval Base), though one tower was left to be used as a mount for navigational beacons and transit lights for the Royal Navy. From then on, the 45-foot (14 m) high tower was known as "Ardencaple Castle Range Rear Light", and had two green lights mounted on its south-west corner. Ardencaple Castle has been considered a Category B listed building since 14 May 1971. Today, all that remains of the grand turreted mansion is one solitary tower.
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XXXX - Castell de Sant Carles (Was closed that day)
6 photos
The castle was not open when I visited, but I did get a couple pictures from the road next to it. The Xs will be updated when I am able to properly visit it :)
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0043 - Castell de Bellver
41 photos
The castle originally served as a residence for the Kings of Mallorca whenever they were not staying in mainland Europe, and was subsequently seldom used as a residence for viceroys during the 17th century In 1931, the Spanish Second Republic gave the castle to the city of Palma, along with the forest surrounding it. It became a museum in 1932, being restored in 1976 to become the city's History museum. Thanks to the parking lot and road built next to the castle, it currently welcomes a great number of visitors. The main yard is the seat to many different public ceremonies, such as protocollary and cultural acts, and concerts. Due to its location and visibility from the sea or any other point of the city, it has become one the city's symbols.
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0042 - Junta Del Puerto
10 photos
Together with the Tower of Signals or Portopí, they are the only two examples of coastal towers and are located at the mouth of the port of Portopí, one of the ports of Palma de Mallorca. Its function was signaling and defensive. The two towers closed the port with a chain. The tower has a square plan, a flat roof and the four walls are blind with loopholes as openings. The deck is finished with battlements. The foundations are from Roman times, protected as a national monument in 1876.
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0041 - Caerlaverock Castle I
9 photos
This castle was square in shape and was one of the earliest stone castles to be built in Scotland. It had a moat with a bridge facing north. Only the foundations and remains of a wooden enclosure around it remain. This early castle may have been incomplete when it was abandoned in favour of a rock outcrop some 200 metres (660 ft) to the north. It was here that Sir John's brother Sir Aymer Maxwell began construction of the present castle. Sir Aymer also served as Chamberlain in 1258–1260, and was Justiciar of Galloway in 1264.
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0040 - Caerlaverock Castle II
48 photos
When the moat around the second castle was dug, the quarrying was probably a source of building stone for the castle. While the gatehouse stands on natural rock, the rest of the castle was built on a clay platform created especially for the castle. In 1619 Robert, 10th Lord Maxwell, married Elizabeth Beaumont, cousin of the Duke of Buckingham, a favourite of James VI of Scotland. He was subsequently made Earl of Nithsdale and appointed to the Privy Council of Scotland. To reflect his new status he built the elaborate south and east ranges within the castle, known as the Nithsdale Lodging. The new ranges were completed around 1634. Nithsdale was at Caerlaverock in August 1637, and wrote to Sir Richard Graham asking for dogs for hunting and breeding. Religious turmoil soon turned against the Catholic Maxwells. In 1640 the Protestant Covenanter army besieged Caerlaverock for 13 weeks, eventually forcing its surrender. According to Sir Henry Vane, the Earl and Countess of Nithsdale and their page were allowed to leave, but 40 defenders called Maxwell were put to the sword. The south wall and tower were demolished, and the castle was never repaired or reoccupied.
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0039 - Blackness Castle
56 photos
It was built, probably on the site of an earlier fort, by Sir George Crichton in the 1440s. At this time, Blackness was the main port serving the Royal Burgh of Linlithgow, one of the main residences of the Scottish monarch. The castle, together with the Crichton lands, passed to James II of Scotland in 1453, and the castle has been crown property ever since. It served as a state prison, holding such prisoners as Cardinal Beaton and the 6th Earl of Angus. Strengthened by Sir James Hamilton of Finnart in the mid-16th century, the castle became one of the most advanced artillery fortifications of its time in Scotland. A century later, these defences were not enough to prevent Blackness falling to Oliver Cromwell's army in 1650. Some years after the siege, the castle was repaired, and again served as a prison and a minor garrison. In 1693, the spur protecting the gate was heightened, and the Stern Tower shortened as a base for three heavy guns. Barracks and officers' quarters were added in the 1870s, when the castle was used as an ammunition depot, until 1912. The castle was briefly reused by the army during World War I. It is now a Scheduled Ancient Monument, in the care of Historic Environment Scotland.
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0038 - Dunnottar Castle
92 photos
Dunnottar Castle (Scottish Gaelic: Dùn Fhoithear, "fort on the shelving slope")--The surviving buildings are largely of the 15th and 16th centuries, but the site is believed to have been fortified in the Early Middle Ages. Dunnottar has played a prominent role in the history of Scotland through to the 18th-century Jacobite risings because of its strategic location and defensive strength. Dunnottar is best known as the place where the Honours of Scotland, the Scottish crown jewels, were hidden from Oliver Cromwell's invading army in the 17th century. The property of the Keiths from the 14th century, and the seat of the Earl Marischal, Dunnottar declined after the last Earl forfeited his titles by taking part in the Jacobite rebellion of 1715. The castle was restored in the 20th century and is now open to the public.
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0037 - Dunure Castle
20 photos
Built in the 13th Century, in use until the 17th Century. Beneath the castle is a cavern called the Browney's Cave which may have been a sally-port: a secret tunnel leading to the castle. The castle's demise began in the mid-17th century. By 1694, the castle was described as "wholly ruined". It is not clear whether this can be linked to the Civil War period, although local tradition suggests that Dunure had been burnt and/or blown up. A major collapse of the southeastern part of the keep could perhaps be linked to such activity. Recovery of building materials for the construction of the Cromwellian citadel in Ayr may also account for its ruination, as occurred at Ardrossan Castle. Much evidence exists for the systematic dismantling of the structure for recoverable building materials including the orderly removal of slates, stone, and glass. The windows were dismantled and comprehensively stripped of their lead. Remains of a localised fire and associated deposits of coal suggested that smelting of the lead took place within the room. Those dismantling the castle seem to have occupied part of the structure during their work.
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0036 - Culzean Castle
58 photos
From 1972 until 2015, an illustration of the castle was featured on the reverse side of five pound notes. In 1945, the Kennedy family gave the castle and its grounds to the National Trust for Scotland (thus avoiding inheritance tax). In doing so, they stipulated that the apartment at the top of the castle be given to General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower in recognition of his role as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe during the Second World War. The General first visited Culzean Castle in 1946 and stayed there four times, including once while President of the United States. The castle is reputed to be home to at least seven ghosts, including a piper and a servant girl.
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0035 - Inverary Castle
45 photos
The present castle was built in the Gothic Revival style. Work on it began in 1743. This castle replaced an earlier 15th-century castle. The village of Inveraray was moved in the 1770s to give the castle a more secluded setting. The castle is open to visitors. Its collection includes more than 1,300 pikes, muskets, swords and other weapons.
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0034 - Lancaster Castle
13 photos
Its early history is unclear, but may have been founded in the 11th century on the site of a Roman fort overlooking a crossing of the River Lune. In 1164, the Honour of Lancaster, including the castle, came under royal control. In 1322 and 1389 the Scots invaded England, progressing as far as Lancaster and damaging the castle. It was not to see military action again until the English Civil War. The castle was first used as a prison in 1196 although this aspect became more important during the English Civil War. The castle buildings are owned by the British sovereign as Duke of Lancaster; part of the structure is used to host sittings of the Crown Court. Until 2011 the majority of the buildings were leased to the Ministry of Justice as Her Majesty's Prison Lancaster, after which the castle was returned to the Duchy's ownership. The castle is now open to the public seven days a week and is undergoing a large-scale refurbishment.
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0033 - Fairlie Castle
2 photos
One source has it that Sir Robert Fairlie of that Ilk built the present castle in 1521, the family having held the lands since the fourteenth century. In around 1656-1660 the last of the Fairlie family sold the castle and barony to the Boyle family in the person of David, first Earl of Glasgow.
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0032 - Craigmillar Castle
48 photos
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0031 - Carlisle Castle
54 photos
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0030 - Ardrossan
2 photos
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0029 - Blair Castle
28 photos
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0028 - Newscastle Castle
40 photos
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0027 - Prague Castle
81 photos
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0026 - Castel Saint'Angelo
102 photos
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0025 - Windsor Castle
73 photos
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0024 - Craigend Castle
4 photos
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0023 - Roslin Castle
16 photos
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0022 - Douglas Castle
3 photos
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0021 - Eilean Donan Castle
18 photos
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0020 - Bothwell Castle
39 photos
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0019 - Inverlochy Castle
21 photos
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0018 - Boughty Castle
25 photos
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0017 - Crookston Castle
45 photos
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0016 - Dunoon Castle
2 photos
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0015 - Inverness Castle
20 photos
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0014 - Balhousie Castle
1 photo
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0013 - Cadzow Castle (Kazow!)
5 photos
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0012 - Linlithgow Palace
44 photos
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0011 - Barr Castle
2 photos
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0010 - Rothesay Castle
17 photos
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0009 - Newark Castle
8 photos
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0008 - Dean Castle
11 photos
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0007 - Dumbarton Castle
9 photos
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0006 - Mugdock Castle
30 photos
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0005 - Kelburn Castle (Graffiti)
7 photos
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0004 - Stirling Castle
79 photos
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0003 - Edinburgh Castle
43 photos
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0002 - Tower of London
102 photos
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0001 - Balloch (Toilet Castle)
6 photos