Castles of the world

Peleș Castle

Romania · Wallachia · 1873–1914

King Carol I's alpine retreat in the Carpathians, its 160 rooms fitted with electric power, central heating and Saxon stained glass.

Larnach Castle

New Zealand · Otago · from 1871

New Zealand's only castle, built by merchant William Larnach on the Otago Peninsula above harbour and rolling hills.

Neuschwanstein Castle

Germany · Bavaria · 1869–1886

Ludwig II's hillside fantasy above the Alpsee, built with modern steel and medieval imagery. Its turrets inspired Disney's fairy-tale castle and draw more than a million visitors a year.

Pencader Castle

United Kingdom · 1866

Pencader railway station served the village of Pencader, Carmarthenshire, Wales, from 1864 to 1965 on the Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway.

Miramare Castle

Italy · Friuli-Venezia Giulia · 1856–1860

Archduke Maximilian's white seafront palace, built on a rocky promontory above the Adriatic and wrapped in gardens of exotic plants.

Pena Palace

Portugal · Sintra · 1842–1854

Ferdinand II's yellow and crimson palace crowning the Sintra hills, a mash-up of Moorish domes, Gothic arches and German towers.

Margam Castle

United Kingdom · Neath Port Talbot · 1830

Margam Castle, Margam, Port Talbot, Wales, is a late Georgian country house built for Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot. Designed by Thomas Hopper, the castle was constructed in a Tudor Revival style over a five-year period, from 1830 to…

Citadelle of Quebec

Canada · Quebec · 1820–1850

A star-shaped fortress on the cliffs above the St Lawrence, still an active military post and the official residence of the governor general.

Glandyfi Castle

United Kingdom · 19th century

Glandyfi Castle in Glandyfi, Ceredigion, Wales, is a mock castle dating from the early 19th century. It was built for George Jeffreys, a barrister and High Sheriff of Cardiganshire, in around 1819.

Gyrn Castle

United Kingdom · 17th century

Gyrn Castle is a Grade II-listed crenellated mansion in Llanasa in Flintshire.

Thorne Island

United Kingdom · 19th century

Thorne Island is a rocky islet and part of the community of Angle, Pembrokeshire, Wales, with an area of , dominated by a coastal artillery fort built to defend the Milford Haven Waterway in the mid-19th century.

Dunraven Castle

United Kingdom · the Vale of Glamorgan · 19th century

Dunraven Castle (Welsh: Castell Dwnrhefn) was a mansion on the South Wales coast near Southerndown. The existing manor house was rebuilt as a castellated hunting lodge in the early 19th century and was extensively remodelled later in the…

Sycharth

United Kingdom · Powys · 19th century

Sycharth was a motte and bailey castle near Llansilin, Powys, Wales. Until 1996 Sycharth was in the historic county of Denbighshire, but was then transferred to the Shire area of Montgomeryshire within Powys.

Chapultepec Castle

Mexico · Mexico City · 1785–1840

The only castle in North America to have housed royalty, set on a hill above Mexico City and now the National Museum of History.

Cyfarthfa Castle Museum and Art Gallery

United Kingdom · 19th century

The Cyfarthfa Ironworks were major 18th- and 19th-century ironworks in Cyfarthfa, on the north-western edge of Merthyr Tydfil, in South East Wales.

Mow Cop Castle

United Kingdom · 1754

Mow Cop Castle is a folly at Mow Cop in the civil parish of Odd Rode, Cheshire, England. It is designated as a Grade II listed building on the National Heritage List for England.

Hawarden castle

United Kingdom · Flintshire · 18th century

(New) Hawarden Castle (Welsh: Castell Penarlâg (Newydd)) is a house in Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales. It was the estate of the former British prime minister William Ewart Gladstone, having previously belonged to the family of his wife…

Paxton's Tower

United Kingdom · 1745

|alt=]] Paxton's Tower is a Neo-Gothic folly erected in honour of Lord Nelson. It is situated on the top of a hill near Llanarthney in the River Tywi valley in Carmarthenshire, Wales.

Clearwell Castle

United Kingdom · 1727

Clearwell Castle in Clearwell, the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, is a Gothic Revival house constructed from 1727. Built by Thomas Wyndham to the designs of Roger Morris, it is the earliest Georgian Gothic Revival castle in England…

Llanvaches Castle

United Kingdom · 5th century

Llanvaches () is a village and community within the boundaries of the city of Newport, Wales. It lies to the east of the urban area, in the historic county of Monmouthshire and the preserved county of Gwent.

Tomen y Bala

United Kingdom · 18th century

Bala () is a town and community in Gwynedd, Wales. Formerly an urban district, Bala lies in the historic county of Merionethshire, at the north end of Llyn Tegid.

Croft Castle and Parkland

United Kingdom · 18th century

Croft Castle is a country house in the village of Croft, Herefordshire, England. Owned by the Croft family since 1085, the castle and estate passed out of their hands in the 18th century, before being repurchased by the family in 1923.

Hopton Castle

United Kingdom · Shropshire · 18th century

Hopton Castle is situated in the village of the same name which lies approximately halfway between Knighton and Craven Arms, in the English county of Shropshire. Hopton Castle featured in the TV series Time Team in 2010.

Castell Dinas Brân

United Kingdom · Denbighshire · 18th century

Castell Dinas Brân is a medieval castle, built by the Princes of Powys Fadog, which occupies a prominent hilltop site above the town of Llangollen in Denbighshire, Wales.

Dimlands Castle

United Kingdom · the Vale of Glamorgan · 18th century

Dimlands (also known as Dimland Castle or Dimland Lodge) was a small scale, gentry house on the north side of St Donats Road about 6 miles (9.7 km) southwest of Cowbridge in the Vale of Glamorgan, southeast Wales.

Castell Cawr

United Kingdom · 18th century

Castell Cawr, or Tan-y-Gopa as it is known locally, is a heavily forested hill above the town of Abergele in Conwy county borough, Wales. On it is found the Iron Age hillfort of Castell Cawr, which overlooks the River Clwyd.

Castillo de San Marcos

United States · Florida · 1672–1695

North America's oldest stone fortress, built of coquina shellstone that swallowed British cannonballs, guarding St Augustine.

Newton House (National Trust), Dinefwr Park

United Kingdom · 1660

Newton House is a Grade II* listed country house situated just to the west of the market town of Llandeilo in Carmarthenshire, Wales.

Potala Palace

China · Tibet · from 1645

The Dalai Lamas' thirteen-storey palace on Marpo Ri, with more than a thousand rooms of chapels and murals climbing the Red Hill.

Shrawardine Motte and Bailey Castle

United Kingdom · 1645

Shrawardine is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Montford, in the Shropshire district, in the ceremonial county of Shropshire, England. It is outside Shrewsbury. In 1931 the parish had a population of 176.

Ruperra Castle

United Kingdom · Caerphilly County Borough · 1626

Ruperra Castle or Rhiwperra Castle () is a Grade II* Listed building and Scheduled Ancient Monument, situated in Lower Machen in the county borough of Caerphilly, Wales. Built in 1626, the castle is in a ruinous condition as at 2023.

Huntington Castle & Gardens

Ireland · County Carlow · 17th century

Huntington Castle, also known as Clonegal Castle, is a castle in Clonegal, County Carlow, Ireland, built in 1625.

Hay Castle

United Kingdom · Powys · 17th century

Hay Castle (Welsh: Castell y Gelli) is a medieval fortification and 17th-century mansion house in the small town of Hay-on-Wye in Powys, Wales.

Amber Fort

India · Rajasthan · from 1592

A hilltop palace of mirrored halls and water gardens built by the Kachwaha rulers, reflected in the lake below Jaipur.

St Fagans Castle

United Kingdom · Cardiff · 16th century

St Fagans Castle () is an Elizabethan mansion in St Fagans, Cardiff, Wales, dating from the late 16th century. The house and remaining medieval fortifications are Grade I listed.

Old Beaupre Castle

United Kingdom · the Vale of Glamorgan · 18th century

Old Beaupre Castle (Welsh: Hen Gastell y Bewpyr; also known as Beaupre Castle, Old Beaupre Manor, or simply Beaupre) is a ruined medieval fortified manor house located in the community of Llanfair, outside Cowbridge in Wales.

St Fagans Castle

United Kingdom · Cardiff · 16th century

St Fagans Castle (Welsh: Castell Sain Ffagan) is an Elizabethan mansion in St Fagans, Cardiff, Wales, dating from the late 16th century. The house and remaining medieval fortifications are Grade I listed.

Osaka Castle

Japan · Osaka · from 1583

Toyotomi Hideyoshi's great stronghold, rebuilt after wartime bombing, its green roofs and gilt tigers towering over the city.

Agra Fort

India · Uttar Pradesh · from 1565

Akbar's red sandstone citadel beside the Taj Mahal, where Shah Jahan was imprisoned in marble chambers overlooking it.

Lahore Fort

Pakistan · Punjab · from 1566

A fort of Mughal gardens and mirror-inlaid halls, rebuilt by Akbar and the emperors who followed him.

Castillo San Felipe del Morro

Puerto Rico · San Juan · from 1539

Six levels of forts and ramparts guarding San Juan's harbour, with a lighthouse and a long history of repelling naval sieges.

Castell Oxwich

United Kingdom · Swansea · 16th century

Oxwich Castle (Welsh: Castell Oxwich) is a Grade I listed castle which occupies a position on a wooded headland overlooking Oxwich Bay on the Gower Peninsula, Wales.

Mir Castle

Belarus · Grodno Region · from 1520

A fortified residence of brick and stone, blending Gothic walls with Renaissance galleries in the Belarusian countryside.

Oxwich Castle

United Kingdom · Swansea · 16th century

Oxwich Castle () is a Grade I listed castle which occupies a position on a wooded headland overlooking Oxwich Bay on the Gower Peninsula, Wales.

Château de Chambord

France · Centre-Val de Loire · 1519–1547

François I's hunting palace, a 440-room fantasy of turrets and terraces built around a celebrated double-helix staircase possibly sketched by Leonardo.

Château de Chenonceau

France · Centre-Val de Loire · from 1513

An arched gallery that strides across the River Cher, designed and defended by a succession of remarkable women who shaped its fate.

Matsumoto Castle

Japan · Nagano · from 1504

Japan's oldest surviving five-tiered keep, its black and white lacquered walls reflected in a moat that once doubled as a reservoir.

Castle of Jehay

Belgium · Liège Province · 16th century

Jehay Castle or Jehay-Bodegnée Castle (French: Château de Jehay or Jehay-Bodegnée) is a castle situated in the municipality of Amay in Liège Province, Wallonia, Belgium.

Castell Moel

United Kingdom · Carmarthenshire · 16th century

Castell Moel (also known as Greencastle, Green Castle, Humphreys Castle, or Castle Mole) is the remains of a 16th-century fortified manor house in the community of Llangain in Carmarthenshire, Wales, and also a medieval motte about 600…

Gwrych Castle

United Kingdom · Conwy County Borough · 16th century

Gwrych Castle is a Grade I listed country house near Abergele in Conwy County Borough, Wales. On an ancient site, the building was created by Lloyd Hesketh Bamford-Hesketh and his descendants over much of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Elmina Castle

Ghana · Central Region · from 1482

The oldest European building in sub-Saharan Africa, a Portuguese trading fort that became a central site of the transatlantic slave trade.

Bodelwyddan Castle

United Kingdom · Denbighshire · 1460

Bodelwyddan Castle (Welsh: Castell Bodelwyddan), close to the village of Bodelwyddan, near Rhyl, Denbighshire in Wales, was built around 1460 by the Humphreys family of Anglesey as a manor house.

Mehrangarh Fort

India · Rajasthan · from 1459

A rampart of red sandstone 120 metres above Jodhpur, its palaces of carved lattice windows looking over the blue city.

Rumeli Hisarı

Turkey · Istanbul · from 1452

Mehmed II's twin-towered fortress on the Bosphorus, raised in four months to choke Constantinople's northern supply route.

Corvin Castle

Romania · Transylvania · from 1446

A Gothic-Renaissance pile with a soaring footbridge, painted knights and a deep moat — and a legend of Vlad the Impaler's imprisonment.

Kronborg Castle

Denmark · Zealand · from 1420

Helsingør's sea gate, rebuilt by Christian IV in Dutch Renaissance style and immortalised as Elsinore in Hamlet.

Penrhyn Castle & Garden

United Kingdom · Gwynedd · 15th century

Penrhyn Castle () is a country house in Llandygai, Bangor, Gwynedd, North Wales, constructed in the style of a Norman castle. The Penrhyn Estate was founded by Ednyfed Fychan.

Dixton Motte

United Kingdom · 1397

St Peter's Church is a Church of England parish church at Dixton in Wales. It is situated on the banks of the River Wye, about 1 mile (1.6 km) north-east of Monmouth, Wales.

Gyeongbokgung

South Korea · Seoul · from 1395

The seat of the Joseon dynasty, restored from its ruins and guarded by a ceremonial changing of the royal guard among painted pavilions.

Château de Pierrefonds

France · Hauts-de-France · from 1393

A ruined medieval stronghold rebuilt by Viollet-le-Duc for Napoleon III into the archetypal French castle, now a favourite of film crews.

Bodiam Castle

United Kingdom · England · from 1385

A perfectly square moated castle built for Sir Edward Dallingridge, its slender towers more statement than serious defence.

Bran Castle

Romania · Transylvania · from 1377

A customs fortress on the Transylvanian border, marketed as Dracula's castle thanks to its dramatic towers and mountain setting.

Trakai Island Castle

Lithuania · Vilnius County · 14th century

A red-brick castle on an island in Lake Galvė, begun by Grand Duke Kęstutis and raised from ruins in the 20th century.

Kamianets-Podilskyi Castle

Ukraine · Khmelnytskyi · 14th century

A castle on a rock island in the Smotrych river canyon, its towers guarding the approaches to the old town.

Sforza Castle

Italy · Lombardy · from 1358

A vast brick citadel at the heart of Milan, rebuilt by the Sforza dukes and now home to Michelangelo's final Pietà.

Karlštejn Castle

Czechia · Bohemia · from 1348

Charles IV's private treasury in the limestone hills, built to safeguard the imperial regalia and holy relics behind successive gates.

Himeji Castle

Japan · Hyōgo · from 1333

The white egret castle: six floors of curved roofs, defensive loopholes and 83 linked buildings, largely unaltered since 1618.

Wawel Castle

Poland · Lesser Poland · 14th century

The royal stronghold above the Vistula, whose arcaded courtyard and Sigismund Chapel mark the height of Polish Renaissance art.

Newport Castle

United Kingdom · Newport, Wales · 14th century

Newport Castle () is a ruined castle in Newport, Wales. It was built in the 14th century, probably by Hugh de Audley, 1st Earl of Gloucester or his son-in-law, Ralph, Earl of Stafford, with the purpose of managing the crossing of the River…

Chateau Colonster

Belgium · Liège Province · 14th century

Colonster Castle (Château de Colonster) is a castle near Liège in Wallonia, Belgium, sited on a rocky spur in the Ourthe valley.

Tretower Castle

United Kingdom · Powys · 14th century

Tretower Castle () is a Grade I-listed ruined castle in the village of Tretower in the county of Powys, Wales. It was built around the beginning of the twelfth century as a motte and bailey castle and this was probably replaced mid-century…

Candleston Castle

United Kingdom · Bridgend County Borough · 14th century

Candleston Castle (historically sometimes Candlestone Castle) is a 14th-century fortified manor house, in ruins since the 19th century.

Dingestow Motte & Baily

United Kingdom · 14th century

The Church of St Dingat in Dingestow, Monmouthshire, Wales, is a parish church dating from the 14th century. It is dedicated to Saint Dingat or Dingad, a 5th-century Welsh saint.

Newport Castle

United Kingdom · Newport, Wales · 14th century

Newport Castle (Welsh: Castell Casnewydd) is a ruined castle in Newport, Wales. It was built in the 14th century, probably by Hugh de Audley, 1st Earl of Gloucester or his son-in-law, Ralph, Earl of Stafford, with the purpose of managing…

Llys a Chastell Tre-tŵr / Tretower Court and Castle

United Kingdom · 14th century

Tretower Court () is a medieval fortified manor house in Wales, situated in the village of Tretower, near Crickhowell in modern-day Powys, previously within the historical county of Breconshire or Brecknockshire.

Chepstow Castle

United Kingdom · 14th century

Chepstow Castle (Welsh: Castell Cas-gwent) at Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales, is the oldest surviving post-Roman stone fortification in Britain.

Chirk Castle

United Kingdom · Wrexham County Borough · 1295

Chirk Castle (Welsh: Castell y Waun) is a Grade I listed castle located in Chirk, Wrexham County Borough, Wales, 1.5 mi (2.4 km) from Chirk railway station, now owned and run by the National Trust.

Akershus Fortress

Norway · Oslo · from 1299

Oslo's medieval castle and royal mausoleum, rebuilt under Christian IV and used as a prison before becoming a fortress museum.

Conwy Castle

United Kingdom · Wales · 1283–1287

One of Edward I's iron ring of Welsh fortresses, built in seven breakneck years with a walled town enclosed alongside it.

Caernarfon Castle

United Kingdom · Wales · from 1283

Polygon towers and banded stone evoke Constantinople — Edward I's most ambitious castle, and the setting for the investiture of the Prince of Wales.

Castell Glas Castle Mound

United Kingdom · Gwynedd · 11th century

Caernarfon Castle (Welsh: Castell Caernarfon; Welsh pronunciation: [kastɛɬ kaɨrˈnarvɔn]) is a medieval fortress in Gwynedd, north-west Wales.

Castell Tinboeth

United Kingdom · Powys · 13th century

Tinboeth Castle (Welsh: Castell Dinbod) was a medieval castle situated midway between Llanbister and Llanbadarn Fynydd in Wales, on a bend in the River Ithon.

Castell Harlech

United Kingdom · Gwynedd · 15th century

Harlech Castle (Welsh: Castell Harlech; Welsh pronunciation: [kastɛɬ ˈharlɛχ]) in Harlech, Gwynedd, Wales, is a Grade I listed medieval fortification built onto a rocky knoll close to the Irish Sea.

Castell Rhuddlan

United Kingdom · Denbighshire · 1282

Rhuddlan Castle (Welsh: Castell Rhuddlan; Welsh pronunciation: [kastɛɬ ˈr̥ɨðlan]) is a castle located in Rhuddlan, Denbighshire, Wales. It was chosen as the location of a castle by Edward I in 1277.

Beaumaris Castle

United Kingdom · Anglesey · 1282

Beaumaris Castle ( bew-MAR-is; Welsh: Castell Biwmares, Welsh pronunciation: [kastɛɬ bɪuˈmaːrɛs]), in Beaumaris, Anglesey, Wales, was built as part of Edward I's campaign to conquer north Wales after 1282.

Denbigh Castle

United Kingdom · Denbighshire · 14th century

Denbigh Castle and town walls ( DEN-bee; Welsh: Castell Dinbych a waliau tref [ˌkastɛɬ ˈdɪnbɨχ]) were built to control the lordship of Denbigh after the Conquest of Wales by Edward I of England in 1282.

Holt Castle

United Kingdom · Wrexham County Borough · 13th century

Holt Castle (Welsh: Castell Holt) was a medieval castle on the Welsh–English border, by the banks of the River Dee, in the village of Holt, Wrexham County Borough, Wales. Work began on the castle in the 13th century during the Welsh Wars.

Castell Ewloe

United Kingdom · Flintshire · 1277

Ewloe Castle (Welsh: Castell Ewloe) is a native Welsh castle built by the Kingdom of Gwynedd near the village of Ewloe in Flintshire, Wales.

Predjama Castle

Slovenia · Inner Carniola · from 1274

Wedged into the mouth of a 123-metre cliff above a cave system, where the rebel knight Erasmus held out for a year against siege.

Malbork Castle

Poland · Pomerania · from 1274

The largest castle in the world by area — a red-brick Teutonic headquarters of moats, chapels and some 30 million bricks.

Castell Dolforwyn

United Kingdom · Powys · 13th century

Dolforwyn Castle (Welsh: Castell Dolforwyn) is a Welsh medieval castle above the village of Abermule, Powys. The fortification was established by Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Prince of Gwynedd in the late 13th century.

Penlle'r Castell

United Kingdom · Swansea · 13th century

Penlle'r Castell is an historic ruin on the summit of Mynydd y Gwair in the far north of the City and County of Swansea. The Penlle'r Castell site was probably a late 13th-century stronghold garrisoned by one of the Marcher Lords.

Buda Castle

Hungary · Central Hungary · from 1247

A royal palace crowning the Danube's Buda bank, rebuilt in baroque splendour after the Ottoman wars and the siege of 1945.

Cardigan Castle

United Kingdom · Ceredigion · 11th century

Cardigan Castle (Welsh: Castell Aberteifi) is a castle overlooking the River Teifi in Cardigan, Ceredigion, Wales. It is a Grade I listed building. The castle dates from the late 11th-century, though was rebuilt in 1244.

Morgraig Castle

United Kingdom · Caerphilly County Borough · 13th century

Morgraig Castle () is a ruined castle, which lies close to the southern borders of the county borough of Caerphilly, overlooking Cardiff in Wales.

Newcastle Emlyn Castle

United Kingdom · Carmarthenshire · 1240

Newcastle Emlyn Castle (Welsh: Castell Newydd Emlyn) is a ruined castle in the market town of Newcastle Emlyn in Carmarthenshire, Wales.

Castel del Monte

Italy · Apulia · from 1240

Frederick II's mysterious octagonal castle, eight towers and eight rooms, with no keep, no moat and a geometry still debated.

Alhambra

Spain · Andalusia · 1238–1492

A palace-city of carved stucco, arabesque courtyards and reflecting pools built for the last Moorish emirs of Granada.

Urquhart Castle

United Kingdom · Scotland · 13th century

A shattered tower on the banks of Loch Ness, fought over by Scots and English and finally blown up to stop its reuse.

Eilean Donan

United Kingdom · Scotland · from 1220

Rebuilt in 1912 from a ruin, this loch-side stronghold where three sea lochs meet is reached across a narrow stone bridge.

Huntington Castle

United Kingdom · Herefordshire · 1216

Huntington Castle was situated in the village of Huntington in Herefordshire, England, 2+1⁄2 miles south-west of Kington (grid reference SO249539).

Castell Carndochan

United Kingdom · Gwynedd · 1215

Carndochan Castle (Welsh: Castell Carndochan) is a ruined stone castle near Llanuwchllyn, Gwynedd, north Wales. It was probably built in the early thirteenth century and is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

Castell Dolwyddelan

United Kingdom · Conwy County Borough · 1210

Dolwyddelan Castle ( dol-with-EL-an; Welsh: Castell Dolwyddelan; Welsh pronunciation: [kastɛɬ dɔlwɪð’ɛlan]) is a thirteenth-century castle located west of Dolwyddelan in Conwy County Borough, Wales.

Castell Meredydd

United Kingdom · Newport, Wales · 13th century

Castell Meredydd, also called Castell Machen, was a castle in Gwynllwg, Wales in the 13th century, long since ruined.

Dolbadarn Castle

United Kingdom · Gwynedd · 13th century

Dolbadarn Castle (English: dol-BAD-an; Welsh: Castell Dolbadarn; Welsh pronunciation: [kastɛɬ dɔl'badarn]) is a fortification built by the Welsh prince Llywelyn the Great during the early 13th century, at the base of the Llanberis Pass, in…

Morlais Castle

United Kingdom · Merthyr Tydfil · 13th century

Morlais Castle is a 13th-century castle located above the Taff Gorge near the town of Merthyr Tydfil in Wales.

Caerphilly Castle

United Kingdom · Caerphilly County Borough · 13th century

Caerphilly Castle (Welsh: Castell Caerffili) is a medieval fortification in Caerphilly in South Wales. The castle was constructed by Gilbert de Clare in the 13th century as part of his campaign to maintain control of Glamorgan, and saw…

Dale Castle

United Kingdom · Pembrokeshire · 13th century

Dale Castle is a 13th-century castle located close to the village of Dale in Pembrokeshire, Wales. In 1910, part of the castle was removed and other parts were incorporated into a new private dwelling house, built in the style of a…

Penrice Castle

United Kingdom · Swansea · 13th century

Penrice Castle () is a 13th-century castle near Penrice, Swansea on the Gower Peninsula, Wales. Nearby is a neo-classical mansion house built in the 1770s.

Powis Castle and Garden

United Kingdom · Powys · 13th century

Powis Castle (Welsh: Castell Powys) is a medieval castle, fortress and grand country house near Welshpool, in Powys, Wales.

Penmark Castle

United Kingdom · 13th century

Penmark () is a rural village south-west of Barry near Rhoose in the Vale of Glamorgan, in South Wales. The village is a parish and is a linear village. It has a parish church along the main road running through the village.

Stokesay Castle

United Kingdom · Shropshire · 13th century

Stokesay Castle is one of the finest surviving fortified manor houses in England, and situated at Stokesay in Shropshire. It was largely built in its present form in the late 13th century by Laurence of Ludlow, on the earlier castle (some…

Aberystwyth Castle

United Kingdom · 13th century

Aberystwyth Castle (Welsh: Castell Aberystwyth) is a Grade I listed Edwardian fortress located in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Mid Wales.

Castell Morlais

United Kingdom · Merthyr Tydfil · 13th century

Morlais Castle is a 13th-century castle located above the Taff Gorge near the town of Merthyr Tydfil in Wales.

Greencastle Royal Castle

United Kingdom · County Down · 13th century

This List of Castles in Ireland, be they in Northern Ireland (United Kingdom) or in the Republic of Ireland, is organised by county within their respective jurisdiction.

Tintagel Castle

United Kingdom · Cornwall · 13th century

Tintagel Castle () is a medieval fortification located on the peninsula of Tintagel Island adjacent to the village of Tintagel (Trevena), North Cornwall in the United Kingdom.

Narberth Castle

United Kingdom · Pembrokeshire · 13th century

Narberth Castle () is a ruined Norman fortress in the town of Narberth, Pembrokeshire, West Wales. It forms part of the Landsker Line.

Whittington Castle

United Kingdom · Shropshire · 13th century

Whittington Castle is a castle in northern Shropshire, England. The castle was originally a motte-and-bailey castle, but this was replaced in the 13th century by one with buildings around a courtyard whose exterior wall was the curtain…

Llawhaden Castle

United Kingdom · Pembrokeshire · 13th century

Llawhaden Castle () () is a ruined castle in Llawhaden, Pembrokeshire, Wales, east of Haverfordwest. A motte-and-bailey castle is thought to have previously occupied the site and the present structure was built by the bishops of the…

Modave Castle

Belgium · Liège Province · 13th century

The Château of Modave , also known as the Château des Comtes de Marchin (French pronunciation: [ʃato de kɔ̃t də maʁʃɛ̃], Château of the Counts of Marchin) is a château near the village of Modave in Liège Province, Wallonia, Belgium.

Upton Castle

United Kingdom · Pembrokeshire · 13th century

Upton Castle is a 13th-century castle with an associated chapel, located near Cosheston, Pembrokeshire in Wales. Although in private ownership, the gardens are open to the public.

Roch Castle

United Kingdom · Pembrokeshire · 13th century

Roch Castle () is a 13th-century castle, located at Roch near Haverfordwest, Wales.

Kilkenny Castle

Ireland · Leinster · from 1195

A long crenellated Norman keep on the River Nore, home to the Butler family for six centuries and now a Kilkenny landmark.

Pembroke Castle

United Kingdom · Pembrokeshire · 20th century

Pembroke Castle () is a medieval castle in the centre of Pembroke, Pembrokeshire in Wales. The castle was the original family seat of the Earldom of Pembroke.

Ajloun Castle

Jordan · Ajloun · from 1184

A compact hilltop stronghold built by Saladin's general, using a chain of hillside lookouts to guard the road to Damascus.

Dover Castle

United Kingdom · England · from 1180

Guardian of the shortest Channel crossing, its great keep was raised by Henry II and its secret wartime tunnels once ran Operation Dynamo.

Rhayader Castle (site of)

United Kingdom · Powys · 1177

Rhayader Castle is the remains of a motte-and-bailey castle in the town of Rhayader, Powys, Wales. The available documentary sources are not clear enough to distinguish between this site and the castle mound across the river and one or the…

Cairo Citadel

Egypt · Cairo · from 1176

Saladin's fortress above Cairo, capped by the tiered alabaster mosque of Muhammad Ali and the city's best view of the Nile plain.

Pont Mathrafal Mound

United Kingdom · Powys · 9th century

Mathrafal near Welshpool, in Powys, Mid Wales, was the seat of the Kings and Princes of Powys probably from the 9th century until its destruction in 1213 by Prince Llywelyn the Great.

Burg Eltz

Germany · Rhineland-Palatinate · from 1157

A maze of eight towers and more than 100 rooms hidden in a forested valley above the Moselle, still owned by the same family after 800 years.

Prestatyn Castle Motte and Bailey

United Kingdom · Denbighshire · 1157

on Prestatyn Castle motte]] Prestatyn Castle is a motte and bailey castle in Prestatyn, Wales, built in 1157 on land granted to the Norman lord Robert Banastre by King Henry II of England.

Tenby Castle

United Kingdom · Pembrokeshire · 13th century

Tenby Castle () was a fortification standing on a headland separated by an isthmus from the town of Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales.

Chillon Castle

Switzerland · Vaud · 12th century

An island fortress on Lake Geneva, tollgate of the Alpine road and setting for Byron's poem, with vaulted dungeons cut into rock.

Tomen y Rhodwydd

United Kingdom · 1149

' is a motte-and-bailey castle built by Owain Gwynedd to protect the borders of . It stands in an area of fields and low hills to the south of (today's south-east Denbighshire), Wales.

Óbidos Castle

Portugal · Leiria · from 1148

A Moorish castle taken by Afonso Henriques, standing over a village of whitewashed houses enclosed by intact medieval walls.

Krak des Chevaliers

Syria · Homs · from 1142

The finest Crusader castle in the world: concentric walls, a sloping glacis and a great hall built by the Knights Hospitaller.

Castell Gwalter

United Kingdom · 1137

Painscastle (Welsh: Castell-paen) is a village and community in Powys (formerly Radnorshire), Wales which takes its name from the castle at its heart.

Penllyn Castle

United Kingdom · the Vale of Glamorgan · 1135

. The castle has views of the surrounding area]] Penllyn Castle is a Norman-style country house, dating mainly from the Victorian period, located in Cowbridge, south-east of Bridgend, South Wales.

Cité de Carcassonne

France · Occitanie · 12th century

Europe's largest surviving walled city: 52 towers and three kilometres of ramparts restored by Viollet-le-Duc in the 19th century.

Alcázar of Segovia

Spain · Castile and León · 12th century

A prow of golden stone between two rivers, whose slate spires and turrets are said to have inspired Disney's castle designs.

Crickhowell Castle

United Kingdom · 1121

Crickhowell Castle (Welsh: Castell Crucywel) is a Grade I listed building in Crickhowell, Wales, now largely ruined. An alternative name, "Alisby's Castle", is sometimes used; this is thought to be after a former governor of the castle…

Kalmar Castle

Sweden · Småland · from the 12th century

A defensive tower that became a Renaissance palace under the Vasa kings, guarding the Baltic against the Danes.

Usk Castle

United Kingdom · 1120

Usk Castle () is a castle site in the town of Usk in central Monmouthshire, south-east Wales, United Kingdom. It was listed Grade I on 16 February 1953.

Castell Talacharn / Laugharne Castle

United Kingdom · Carmarthenshire · 1116

Laugharne Castle (Welsh: Castell Talacharn) is in Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, Wales. The castle, located on the estuary of the River Tâf, was originally established in 1116. It was rebuilt as a Norman stronghold.

Neath Castle

United Kingdom · Neath Port Talbot · 1114

Neath Castle () is a Norman castle located in the town centre of Neath, Wales. Its construction was begun by Robert, Earl of Gloucester, the nominal Lord of Glamorgan, at a date estimated between 1114 and 1130.

Cilgerran Castle

United Kingdom · Pembrokeshire · 13th century

Cilgerran Castle (Welsh: Castell Cilgerran) is a 13th-century ruined castle located in Cilgerran, Pembrokeshire, Wales, near Cardigan.

Swansea Castle

United Kingdom · Swansea · 1107

Swansea Castle (Welsh: Castell Abertawe) is located in the city centre of Swansea, Wales, UK. It was founded by Henry de Beaumont in 1107 as the caput of the lordship of Gower.

Loughor Castle

United Kingdom · Swansea · 13th century

Loughor Castle () is a ruined, medieval fortification located in the town of Loughor, Wales. The castle was built around 1106 by the Anglo-Norman lord Henry de Beaumont, during the Norman invasion of Wales.

Oystermouth Castle

United Kingdom · Swansea · 1106

Oystermouth Castle () is a Norman stone castle in Wales, overlooking Swansea Bay on the east side of the Gower Peninsula in the village of Mumbles.

Ogmore Castle

United Kingdom · the Vale of Glamorgan · 12th century

Ogmore Castle (Welsh: Castell Ogwr) is a Grade I listed castle ruin located near the village of Ogmore in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, east of Ogmore-by-Sea, and south of the town of Bridgend.

Edinburgh Castle

United Kingdom · Scotland · from the 12th century

Castled on a volcanic crag above the Scottish capital, it has been royal residence, barracks and fortress — and holds the Honours of Scotland.

Penhow Castle

United Kingdom · 12th century

Penhow Castle, Penhow, Newport dates from the early 12th century. Extended and reconstructed in almost every century since, it has been claimed to be the oldest continuously-inhabited castle in Wales.

Castell Deudraeth

United Kingdom · 12th century

Castell Deudraeth is a former manor house approximately 0.5 km NE of Portmeirion in Gwynedd, North Wales.

Nevern Castle

United Kingdom · 12th century

Nevern () is both a parish and a community in Pembrokeshire, Wales. The community includes the settlements of Felindre Farchog, Monington, Moylgrove and Bayvil.

Pennard Castle

United Kingdom · Swansea · 12th century

Pennard Castle is a ruined castle, near the modern village of Pennard on the Gower Peninsula, in south Wales. The castle was built in the early 12th century as a timber ringwork following the Norman invasion of Wales.

Barry Castle

United Kingdom · the Vale of Glamorgan · 12th century

Barry Castle (Welsh: Castell y Barri) is a small Grade II* listed ruined two-storey gatehouse with the adjacent walls of a hall in the Romilly district of Barry, Vale of Glamorgan in south Wales.

Ludlow Castle

United Kingdom · Shropshire · 12th century

Ludlow Castle is a ruined medieval fortification in the town of Ludlow in the English county of Shropshire, standing on a promontory overlooking the River Teme.

Dodleston motte and bailey castle

United Kingdom · Cheshire · 12th century

Dodleston Castle in Cheshire is a medieval motte-and-bailey castle that was developed from an earlier ringwork It is first recorded in 1277, but may have existed in the 12th century when the manor of Dodleston was held by the Boydel…

Clun Castle

United Kingdom · Shropshire · 12th century

Clun Castle is a medieval ruined castle in Clun, Shropshire, England. Clun Castle was established by the Norman lord Robert de Say after the Norman invasion of England and went on to become an important Marcher lord castle in the 12th…

St Quentin’s Castle (Llanblethian Castle)

United Kingdom · the Vale of Glamorgan · 12th century

St Quintins Castle (also known as St Quentins Castle and Llanblethian Castle, Welsh: Castell Llanfleiddan) is a castle located in the village of Llanblethian, Cowbridge, Wales.

St Donat's Castle

United Kingdom · the Vale of Glamorgan · 12th century

St Donat's Castle (Welsh: Castell Sain Dunwyd), St Donats, Wales, is a medieval castle in the Vale of Glamorgan, about 16 miles (26 km) to the west of Cardiff, and about 1+1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) to the west of Llantwit Major.

Pulford castle

United Kingdom · Cheshire · 12th century

Pulford Castle is in the village of Pulford, Cheshire, England, immediately south of St Mary's Church (). It is listed as a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

Castell Llangynwyd

United Kingdom · Bridgend County Borough · 12th century

Llangynwyd Castle is a ruined castle, probably of the 12th century, in Llangynwyd, in Bridgend County Borough, South Wales, just to the south of Maesteg.

Capel Llugwy

United Kingdom · 12th century

Capel Lligwy (sometimes referred to as Hen Gapel Lligwy) is a ruined chapel near Rhos Lligwy in Anglesey, north Wales, dating back to the first half of the 12th century.

Goodrich Castle

United Kingdom · Herefordshire · 12th century

Goodrich Castle is a ruined medieval castle north of the village of Goodrich in Herefordshire, England, controlling a key location between Monmouth and Ross-on-Wye.

Caldicot Castle

United Kingdom · 1100

Caldicot Castle (Welsh: Castell Cil-y-coed) is an extensive stone medieval castle in the town of Caldicot, Monmouthshire, in southeast Wales, built near the site of Harold Godwinson's former Saxon castle by the Norman earls of Hereford…

Llansteffan Castle

United Kingdom · Carmarthenshire · 1100

Llansteffan Castle (Welsh: Castell Llansteffan) is a privately owned castle in Llansteffan, Carmarthenshire, Wales, overlooking the River Towy estuary in Carmarthen Bay.

Kinnersley Castle

United Kingdom · Herefordshire · 16th century

Kinnersley Castle in Herefordshire, England, is one of the many marches castles along the Welsh Borders.

Castell Bronllys

United Kingdom · 1100

Bronllys Castle (Welsh: Castell Bronllys) is a motte and bailey fortress standing south of Bronllys, towards Talgarth in Powys, Wales.

Aït Benhaddou

Morocco · Drâa-Tafilalet · 11th century

A kasbah of earthen towers on the old caravan road to the Sahara, still lived in and a favourite of filmmakers.

Castle nimble

United Kingdom · Powys · 1096

Castle Nimble (also called Knapp; Maes Hyfaidd; Maes Hyvaidd) was a motte and bailey defensive fortification near Old Radnor, in Radnorshire (modern-day Powys), Wales.

Alnwick Castle

United Kingdom · England · from 1096

Home of the Percys for 700 years, this border fortress has played Hogwarts on screen and still guards the Northumberland marches.

East Orchard Castle

United Kingdom · 14th century

East Orchard Castle is a ruined building near St Athan in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, whose remains date mainly from the 14th century.

Snodhill Castle

United Kingdom · Herefordshire · 11th century

Snodhill Castle is a ruined motte-and-bailey castle, about 1 mi (1.6 km) south of the village of Dorstone in west Herefordshire, England. It is recognized as one of the major castles of the Welsh Marches.

Castell Aberlleiniog

United Kingdom · Anglesey · 1080

Castell Aberlleiniog (Welsh for 'castle of the mouth of the Lleiniog') is a motte and bailey fortress near the village of Llangoed on the Isle of Anglesey, in Wales, built between 1080 and 1099 by Hugh d'Avranches, 1st Earl of Chester.

Tower of London

United Kingdom · England · from 1078

William the Conqueror's White Tower became a palace, prison, armoury and execution site — and has housed the Crown Jewels for centuries.

Hohensalzburg Fortress

Austria · Salzburg · from 1077

One of Europe's best-preserved fortresses, expanded over centuries above Salzburg's baroque old town and never taken by siege.

Pen y Clawdd Castle

United Kingdom · Monmouthshire · 1075

Pen y Clawdd Castle is a ditched mound with a double moat, roughly circular in shape, with a diameter of approximately 28m to 30m and about 2.4m high.

St Briavels Castle

United Kingdom · Gloucestershire · 13th century

St Briavels Castle (most likely named after Saint Brioc) is a moated Norman castle at St Briavels in the English county of Gloucestershire. The castle is noted for its huge Edwardian gatehouse that guards the entrance.

Twthill

United Kingdom · Denbighshire · 11th century

Twthill () is a Norman motte-and-bailey castle located near Rhuddlan, Denbighshire in North Wales. The earth and timber castle was built during the Norman invasion of Wales in the late 11th century.

Mold Castle

United Kingdom · Flintshire · 15th century

Mold Castle (), also known as Bailey Hill in the town of Mold, Flintshire, north-east Wales, is a motte-and-bailey castle erected around 1072, probably by the Norman Robert de Montalt under instructions from Hugh d'Avranches, Earl of…

Montgomery Castle

United Kingdom · Powys · 14th century

Montgomery Castle (Welsh: Castell Trefaldwyn) is a stone castle looking over the town of Montgomery in Powys, Mid Wales. It is one of many Norman castles on the border between Wales and England.

Windsor Castle

United Kingdom · England · from 1070

The oldest inhabited castle in the world and a royal residence for 900 years, its Round Tower standing over the Thames valley.

Dinas Castle

United Kingdom · Powys · 1070

Castell Dinas is a hillfort and castle in southern Powys, Wales. At 450 m (1,476 feet) (SO179301) it has the highest castle in England and Wales. It is positioned to defend the Rhiangoll pass between Talgarth and Crickhowell.

Wartburg

Germany · Thuringia · from 1067

Where Luther translated the New Testament and the minstrels held their legendary contest. A UNESCO-listed hilltop fortress above Eisenach.

Monmouth Castle

United Kingdom · 1066

Monmouth Castle () is a castle close to the centre of the town of Monmouth, the county town of Monmouthshire, on a hill above the River Monnow in south-east Wales.

Llanthomas Castle Mound

United Kingdom · Herefordshire · 1066

Llanthomas Castle Mound in Llanigon (near Hay-on-Wye), Powys, was built by the Normans after the 1066 Norman Conquest of England, probably after the first or second Norman invasion of Wales, but before 1215.

Grosmont Castle

United Kingdom · 1066

Grosmont Castle is a ruined castle in the village of Grosmont, Monmouthshire, Wales. The fortification was established by the Normans in the wake of the invasion of England in 1066, to protect the route from Wales to Hereford.

Hay Motte and Bailey

United Kingdom · Herefordshire · 1066

Llanthomas Castle Mound in Llanigon (near Hay-on-Wye), Powys, was built by the Normans after the 1066 Norman Conquest of England, probably after the first or second Norman invasion of Wales, but before 1215.

Skenfrith Castle

United Kingdom · Monmouthshire · 12th century

Skenfrith Castle () is a ruined castle in the village of Skenfrith in Monmouthshire, Wales. The fortification was established by the Normans in the wake of the invasion of England in 1066, to protect the route from Wales to Hereford.

Hohenzollern Castle

Germany · Baden-Württemberg · from 1061

Perched on a Swabian hilltop, the ancestral seat of the Hohenzollerns was rebuilt in the 19th century as a romantic vision of German medieval power.

Richard's Castle

United Kingdom · Herefordshire · 1051

Richard's Castle is a village, castle and two civil parishes on the border of the counties of Herefordshire and Shropshire in England.

Wilton Castle

United Kingdom · Herefordshire · 12th century

Wilton Castle is a 12th-century Norman castle located in south-eastern Herefordshire, England on the River Wye adjacent to the town of Ross-on-Wye. The castle is named after the manor associated with it.

Wilton Castle

United Kingdom · Herefordshire · 12th century

Wilton Castle is a 12th-century Norman castle located in south-eastern Herefordshire, England on the River Wye adjacent to the town of Ross-on-Wye. The castle is named after the manor associated with it.

Bled Castle

Slovenia · Upper Carniola · from 1011

The oldest castle in Slovenia, stacked on a cliff above a lake with an island church, its terraces looking to the Julian Alps.

Cardiff Castle

United Kingdom · Cardiff · 11th century

Cardiff Castle (Welsh: Castell Caerdydd) is a medieval castle and Victorian Gothic mansion located in the city centre of Cardiff, Wales.

Tomen y Mur Roman Fort

United Kingdom · 11th century

Tomen y Mur is a Roman fort in Snowdonia, Gwynedd, Wales, dating to the first century AD. The fortification, which lies on the slope of an isolated spur northeast of Llyn Trawsfynydd, was constructed during the North Wales campaigns of…

Kenfig Castle

United Kingdom · Bridgend County Borough · 11th century

Kenfig Castle (Welsh: Castell Cynffig) is a ruined castle in Bridgend County Borough in Wales that came to prominence after the Anglo-Norman invasion of Wales in the late 11th century.

Castle Tump

United Kingdom · Powys · 11th century

Castle Tump (Trecastle Motte) is an early 11th-century motte and bailey castle in Trecastle, Powys, Wales.

Manorbier Castle

United Kingdom · Pembrokeshire · 11th century

Manorbier Castle () is a Norman castle in Manorbier, southwest of Tenby, Wales. It was founded in the late 11th century by the Anglo-Norman de Barry family.

Llancillo Castle

United Kingdom · 11th century

Llancillo Church (also spelled Llancilo) is a Grade II*-listed redundant church in Herefordshire, England, near the Welsh border at grid reference SO36622557.

Longtown Castle

United Kingdom · Herefordshire · 11th century

Longtown Castle, also termed Ewias Lacey Castle in early accounts, is a ruined Norman motte-and-bailey fortification in Longtown, Herefordshire. It was established in the 11th century by Walter de Lacy, reusing former Roman earthworks.

Mont-Saint-Michel

France · Normandy · from 966

An abbey-fortress rising from tidal sands on the Normandy coast, defended by walls and reached only when the sea retreats.

Ewyas Harold Castle Motte

United Kingdom · England built before 1066 · 10th century

Ewyas Harold Castle was a castle in the village of Ewyas Harold in Herefordshire, England.

Prague Castle

Czechia · Bohemia · from 870

Recorded as the largest ancient castle complex in the world, the seat of Czech rulers and guardian of the Bohemian crown jewels.

Hochosterwitz Castle

Austria · Carinthia · from 860

A white cliff-top castle reached through fourteen successive gates, each a defence of its own, still in the Khevenhüller family.

Kilpeck Castle

United Kingdom · 9th century

Kilpeck is a village and civil parish in the county of Herefordshire, England. It is about nine miles (14 km) southwest of Hereford, just south of the A465 road and Welsh Marches Line to Abergavenny, and about five miles (8 km) from the…

Old Oswestry Hill Fort

United Kingdom · 8th century

Old Oswestry () is a large early Iron Age hill fort in the Welsh Marches near Oswestry in north west Shropshire, England. The earthworks, which remain one of the best preserved hill forts in the UK, have been described as "The Stonehenge…

Bamburgh Castle

United Kingdom · England · from the 6th century

A rampart of stone above Northumbrian dunes, once the capital of the kingdom of Bernicia and restored by Victorian industrialist William Armstrong.

Canovium Roman Fort

United Kingdom · 500

Canovium was a fort in the Roman province of Britannia. Its site is located at Caerhun in the Conwy valley, in the county borough of Conwy, in North Wales.

Caer Leb Castle

United Kingdom · 2nd century

Caer Lêb is a Roman and mediaeval site on the Welsh island of Anglesey, west of Brynsiencyn. Its name means "Leaven Castle".

Hyssington Castle

United Kingdom

Hyssington (Welsh: Isatyn) is a parish in the South-Eastern corner of the historic county of Montgomeryshire in Wales and borders the county of Shropshire in England.

Castle of Oia

Greece

Castell Du

United Kingdom · Powys

, also known as Sennybridge Castle or Castell Rhyd-y-Briw, is located approximately eight miles west of Brecon in Powys, Wales, and is believed to be the work of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Prince of Wales.

Kidwelly Castle

United Kingdom · Carmarthenshire

Kidwelly Castle (Welsh: Castell Cydweli) is a ruined castle overlooking the River Gwendraeth and the town of Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales.

Shrewsbury Castle

United Kingdom · Shropshire

Shrewsbury Castle is a red sandstone castle in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. It stands on a hill in the neck of the meander of the River Severn on which the town originally developed.

Castell Haidd

United Kingdom

Lyonshall castle

United Kingdom

Lyonshall or is a historic village and civil parish in Herefordshire, England. The civil parish includes the hamlet of Penrhos. According to the 2001 Census, the civil parish had a population of 750, increasing to 757 at the 2011 Census.

Castell Cricieth

United Kingdom · Gwynedd

Criccieth Castle (Welsh: Castell Cricieth; Welsh pronunciation: [kastɛɬ ˈkrɪkjɛθ]) is a ruined thirteenth-century castle in Criccieth, Gwynedd, Wales.

Hawarden Old Castle

United Kingdom

Stephen’s Castle

United Kingdom

Castle Rock (sometimes referred to as the Rock) is a fictional town appearing in Stephen King's fictional Maine topography, providing the setting for a number of his novels, novellas, and short stories.

Castell Dryslwyn

United Kingdom · Carmarthenshire

Dryslwyn Castle (Welsh: Castell Dryslwyn or Castell y Drysllwyn) is a native Welsh castle, sited on a rocky hill roughly halfway between Llandeilo and Carmarthen in Wales.

Ffridd Faldwyn Iron Age Hillfort

United Kingdom

Ffridd Faldwyn is an Iron Age hillfort in northern Powys, in the former county of Montgomeryshire, It is sited on a prominent hill west of Montgomery, close to but higher than Montgomery Castle, overlooking the River Severn.

Carreg Cennen Castle

United Kingdom · Carmarthenshire

Carreg Cennen Castle (Welsh: Castell Carreg Cennen) is a castle sited on a high rocky outcrop overlooking the River Cennen, close to the village of Trap, four miles south east of Llandeilo in Carmarthenshire, Wales.

Carmarthen Castle

United Kingdom · Carmarthenshire

Carmarthen Castle (Welsh: Castell Caerfyrddin) is a ruined castle in Carmarthen, West Wales, UK. First built by Walter, Sheriff of Gloucester in the early 1100s, the castle was captured and destroyed on several occasions before being…

White Castle

United Kingdom

White Castle may refer to:

Oswestry Castle

United Kingdom · Powys

Oswestry Castle is a medieval castle in the town of Oswestry, Shropshire, England. The castle has also been known as, or recorded in historical documents as: Album Monasterium; Blancminster; Blankmouster; Blancmustier; Croes Oswald…

Raglan Castle

United Kingdom

Raglan Castle () is a late medieval castle located just north of the village of Raglan in the county of Monmouthshire in south east Wales.

Llangybi Castle

United Kingdom

Painscastle castle (site of)

United Kingdom

Painscastle was, from 1894 to 1974, a rural district in the administrative county of Radnorshire, Wales.

Castell Llanymddyfri

United Kingdom · Carmarthenshire

Llandovery Castle (Welsh: Castell Llanymddyfri) is a late thirteenth-century, Grade II*-listed, castle ruin in the town of Llandovery in Carmarthenshire, Wales. It occupies a knoll overlooking the River Towy and the land surrounding it.

Old Bishop's Palace

United Kingdom

The Bishop's Palace () which is also known as Llandaff Castle or Bishop's Castle or the Old Bishop's Palace, is the ruined residence of the bishops of Llandaff.

Newton House (National Trust), Dinefwr Park

United Kingdom

Castell Trefadog

United Kingdom

Llanilid Castle

United Kingdom

Llanilid is a small settlement of in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales. It is in the historic county of Glamorgan.

Castell Tal y Fan

United Kingdom

Llanquian Castle

United Kingdom

Pen-y-Mwd / Aber Castle Mound

United Kingdom

Abergwyngregyn () is a village and community of historical note in Gwynedd, a county and principal area in Wales. Under its historic name of Aber Garth Celyn it was the seat of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd.

Castell Caergwrle

United Kingdom · Flintshire

Caergwrle Castle (Welsh: Castell Caergwrle), also known as Queen's Hope in scholarly texts, is a castle located in the village of Caergwrle, in Flintshire, Wales.

Castell Prysor

United Kingdom

Château de Wégimont

Belgium · Liège Province

Wégimont Castle (French: Château de Wégimont) is a castle in the ancienne commune of Ayeneux, Soumagne, Liège Province, Wallonia, Belgium.

Castle Pulverbatch

United Kingdom

Ystradowen Motte

United Kingdom

Ystradowen is a small village twelve miles west of Cardiff, located in Penllyn community in the Vale of Glamorgan in south Wales; its nearest town is Cowbridge which is about three miles to the south.

Aberedw Motte & Bailey Castle

United Kingdom · Powys

The remains of Aberedw Castle, also known as 'Castle in Elfael Uwch Mynydd', are located at the small village of Aberedw in the county of Powys, Mid-Wales.

Castell Crug Eryr

United Kingdom · Powys

Crug Eryr Castle (Castell Crug Eryr) was a motte and bailey-style castle located atop a hill adjacent to the A44 about 2 miles northwest of Llanfihangel Nant Melan, near New Radnor in Powys, Wales.

Bryn Owain Glyndŵr

United Kingdom

Owain ap Gruffudd Fychan or Owain Glyndŵr (c. 1359 – c. 1416) was a Welsh nobleman and military commander in the late Middle Ages who led a revolt with the aim of establishing an independent Wales free from English rule.

Castlemorton Tump

United Kingdom

Castlemorton is a village and civil parish close to Malvern in the Malvern Hills District in the county of Worcestershire, England. It consists of a village centre, a large common and many farms and houses within the area.

Landimor Castle

United Kingdom

This is a list of buildings and structures in the City and County of Swansea.

Weobley Castle

United Kingdom

Weobley Castle may refer to:

Castell Henllys Iron Age Village

Ireland

The Irish National Heritage Park is an open-air museum near Wexford, Ireland, which tells the story of human settlement in Ireland from the Mesolithic period up to the Norman Invasion in 1169. It was opened to the public in 1987.

Twmpath Castle

United Kingdom · Cardiff

Twmpath Castle, also known as Twmpath Motte (), is a medieval motte on the southern slope of Wenallt Hill near Rhiwbina in Cardiff, Wales, which is a scheduled monument.

Flint Castle

United Kingdom · Flintshire

Flint Castle (Welsh: Castell y Fflint) in Flint, Flintshire, was the first of a series of castles built during King Edward I's campaign to conquer Wales.

Ruthin Castle Hotel and Spa

United Kingdom

Castle Hotel may refer to:

Castell Nos Motte

United Kingdom

Castell y Bere

United Kingdom · Gwynedd

Castell y Bere is a Welsh castle near Llanfihangel-y-pennant in Gwynedd, Wales. Constructed by Llywelyn the Great in the 1220s, the stone castle was intended to maintain his authority over the local people and to defend the south-west part…

Wiston Castle

United Kingdom · Pembrokeshire

Wiston Castle () is a motte and bailey castle in the Pembrokeshire village of Wiston in south west Wales and is one of the best examples of its type in Wales.

Pen y Castell

United Kingdom

Pen y Castell is a summit in the Carneddau mountains in north Wales. It tops the east ridge of Drum (Wales). The summit consists of rocky outcrops amid a small boggy plateau.

Castell Dinefwr

United Kingdom · Carmarthenshire

Dinefwr Castle (Welsh: Castell Dinefwr; also known as Old Dynevor Castle) is a ruined castle overlooking the River Towy near the town of Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, Wales.

Castell Deganwy

United Kingdom · Conwy County Borough

Deganwy Castle (Medieval Latin: Arx Deganhui; Middle Welsh: Caer Ddegannwy; Modern Welsh: Castell Degannwy) was an early stronghold of Gwynedd in Deganwy, at the mouth of the River Conwy, now in Conwy county borough, north Wales.

Tower Hill Abergele

United Kingdom

Dyserth Castle

United Kingdom

Castell Gwrtheyrn

United Kingdom

Nant Gwrtheyrn is a Welsh language and heritage centre, located near the village of Llithfaen on the northern coast of the Llŷn Peninsula, Gwynedd, in northwest Wales.

Tre'r Ceiri Hillfort

United Kingdom

Tre'r Ceiri () is a hillfort dating back to the Iron Age. The name means "town of the giants", from , plural of , "giant".

Nantcribba Castle

United Kingdom · Powys

Nantcribba Castle is a castle in Powys, Wales. It was built on a rocky outcrop. The site has been connected to a castle mentioned in medieval documents as "Gwyddgrug", which was first recorded in 1242.

Cilwhybert Motte

United Kingdom

Erddig Motte

United Kingdom

Erddig (Welsh pronunciation: [ˈɛrðɪɡ]) is a country house and estate in the community of Marchwiel, approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Wrexham, Wales.

Foel Drygarn Hill Fort

United Kingdom

Foel Drygarn ('The hill of the three cairns') is an Iron Age hillfort, within which are three Bronze Age burial cairns. The site is about 1.5 miles (2 km) west of the village of Crymych in Pembrokeshire, Wales. It is a scheduled monument.

Banc y darren

United Kingdom

Castell Tan y Bwlch Castle

United Kingdom

Tan-y-Bwlch (Welsh for 'Under the pass / gap') is a beach near Aberystwyth, Wales, forming part of the Pen Dinas and Tan-y-Bwlch Local Nature Reserve (LNR), the majority of which is located in the village of Penparcau.

Pen Dinas Hill Fort Site

United Kingdom

Pen Dinas () is a large hill in Penparcau, on the coast of Ceredigion, Wales, (just south of Aberystwyth) upon which an extensive Iron Age, Celtic hillfort is situated.

Wigmore Castle

United Kingdom · Herefordshire

Wigmore Castle is a ruined castle about from the village of Wigmore in the northwest region of Herefordshire, England.

Tomen Las / Domen Las Castle

United Kingdom

Castell Cynfal

United Kingdom

Llantrisant Castle

United Kingdom · Rhondda Cynon Taf

Llantrisant Castle is a ruined castle in Llantrisant, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Glamorgan, Wales. The ruins are on a good elevation, commanding extensive views of the surrounding country.

Moel y Gaer

United Kingdom

Moel y Gaer (also Moel-y-Gaer or Moel-y-gaer) may refer to any of several prehistoric hillforts in Wales:

Newcastle Castle

United Kingdom

Newcastle Castle may refer to one of two medieval castles in Great Britain:

Bryn Castell

United Kingdom

The Castle

United Kingdom

The Castle may refer to:

Dinerth Castle Remains site

United Kingdom · Ceredigion

The Castle of Dinerth (Welsh: Castell Dineirth, Castell Dinerth, or Castell Allt Craig Arth) is a Welsh castle located near Aberarth, Ceredigion, west Wales that was completed c. AD 1110.

Gwydir Castle

United Kingdom · Conwy County Borough

Gwydir Castle is in the Conwy valley, Wales, a mile west of the market town of Llanrwst and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south of the large village of Trefriw. An example of a fortified manor house dating back to c.

Tomen y Faerdre

United Kingdom

Roundton Hill National Nature Reserve

United Kingdom

Roundton Hill is a rounded, steep sided, hill, volcanic in origin, in the easternmost part of old Montgomeryshire (in present day-Powys), Wales, which juts into the English border near Church Stoke.

Abergwesyn Common

United Kingdom

Abergwesyn () is a village in the Welsh county of Powys, in mid-Wales, at the start of the Abergwesyn valley and at the confluence of the Afon Irfon and the Afon Gwesyn.