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Mains Castle, known at various times as Fintry Castle or Claverhouse Castle, is located in Dundee, Scotland.map coordinates 56.485556, -2.958056The castle is believed to have been built in 1562 by Sir...
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Hodejov Castle ruins look down on a village of the same name in Slovakia.map coordinates 48.298989, 19.983638The first written mention of the castle as Hodejov is in 1281, referring to an armed...
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The castle Fuencubierta is located in the province of Jaen, Spain.map coordinates 37.779013, -4.058691Although the site shows evidence of occupation from pre-Roman times, the current castle was...
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Iznalloz Castle, also referred to as Almendros, is located in the upper part of the town of Iznalloz, Spain.map coordinates 37.393009, -3.530646The remains of the Tenth century castle were built on top...
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Bottstein is a castle in a tiny village in Switzerland.map coordinates 47.555105, 8.224656The noble family “Freie von Böttstein” is recorded as living in the castle in the 11th through 13th centuries....
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Or should I say Castles?Frohberg Engenstein and Schalberg are ruined castles that are the furthest links in a line from the town of Aesh, Switzerland.Frohberg map coordinates 47.467740,...
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Ekenas Castle is a castle located outside Linkoping in South-East Sweden.map coordinates 58.382, 15.946The Fourteenth Century Fortress was heavily rebuilt in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries....
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Yumbulagang is an ancient fortified palace in the Yarlung Valley, in the South of Tibet, People's Republic of China.map coordinates 29.142512, 91.802601According to a legend of followers of the Bon...
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Gomarn Castle is located in on a rocky head on the west side of the old walled city of St. Leonhard, Austria.map coordinates 46.963611, 14.787778 The oldest parts of the castle date back to the 12th...
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Nardaran Castle is situated in the northern part of Absheron Peninsula, in Azerbaijan.map coordinates 40.561389, 50.004722The castle was built in 1301 by architect Mahmud ibn Sa'ad; thoughtful an...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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