A report on Castle

Dating back to the early 12th century, the Alcázar of Segovia is one of the most distinctive castles in Europe.
Built in 1385, Bodiam Castle in East Sussex, England, is surrounded by a water-filled moat.
The Norman White Tower, the keep of the Tower of London, exemplifies all uses of a castle including city defence, a residence, and a place of refuge in times of crisis.
Windsor Castle in England was founded as a fortification during the Norman Conquest and today is one of the principal official residences of Queen Elizabeth II.
Baba Vida medieval castle build on the banks of the Danube in Vidin, Bulgaria
São Jorge Castle in Lisbon, Portugal, with a bridge over a moat
The wooden palisades on top of mottes were often later replaced with stone, as in this example at Château de Gisors in France.
A courtyard of the 14th-century Raseborg Castle in Finland
The 14th-century keep of Château de Vincennes near Paris towers above the castle's curtain wall. The wall exhibits features common to castle architecture: a gatehouse, corner towers, and machicolations.
Beaumaris Castle in Anglesey, North Wales, with curtain walls between the lower outer towers, and higher inner curtain walls between the higher inner towers.
A 13th-century gatehouse in the château de Châteaubriant, France. It connects the upper ward to the lower one.
Caerlaverock Castle in Scotland is surrounded by a moat.
Daorson, Bosnia, built around a prehistoric central fortified settlement or acropolis (existed there cca. 17/16th c. to the end of the Bronze Age, cca. 9/8th c. BCE), surrounded by cyclopean walls (similar to Mycenae) dated to the 4th c. BCE.
Borġ in-Nadur fort in Malta, built during the Tarxien phase and used until the Bronze Age.
The Bayeux Tapestry contains one of the earliest representations of a castle. It depicts attackers of the Château de Dinan in France using fire, a major threat to wooden castles.
Built in 1138, Castle Rising in Norfolk, England is an example of an elaborate donjon.
Albarrana tower in Paderne Castle, Portugal
The gatehouse to the inner ward of Beeston Castle in Cheshire, England, was built in the 1220s, and has an entrance between two D-shaped towers.
Krak des Chevaliers in Syria is a concentric castle built with both rectangular and rounded towers. It is one of the best-preserved Crusader castles.
The design of Edward I's Harlech Castle (built in the 1280s) in North Wales was influenced by his experience of the Crusades.
The northern walls of the Gran Castello in Gozo, Malta, were built in the 15th century.
Corvin Castle in Transylvania (built between 1446 and 1480) was one of the biggest in Eastern Europe at that time.
Castle De Haar, Utrecht, Netherlands.
The angled bastion, as used in Copertino Castle in Italy, was developed around 1500. First used in Italy, it allowed the evolution of artillery forts that eventually took over the military role of castles.
Neuschwanstein is a 19th-century historicist (neoromanesque) castle built by Ludwig II of Bavaria, inspired by the romanticism of the time.
Castello Dei Baroni, a country residence in Wardija, Malta, designed with castle-like features.
A 19th-century depiction by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc of the construction of the large tower at Coucy Castle in France, with scaffolding and masons at work. The putlog holes mark the position of the scaffolding in earlier stages of construction. The tower was blown up in 1917.
Experimental archeology castle building at Guédelon Castle site in France (2015).
God Speed! by Edmund Blair Leighton, 1900: a late Victorian view of a lady giving a favour to a knight about to do battle.
Highland castles such as Château de Montségur in southern France have become the popular idea of where castles should be found because they are photogenic, where in reality castles were built in a variety of places due to a range of considerations.
Srebrenik Fortress in Srebrenik, Bosnia: inaccessibility of location with only a narrow bridge traversing deep canyon provides excellent protection.
Almourol Castle in Portugal, which stands on a small islet in the Tejo River.
Tavastia Castle in Hämeenlinna, Finland, one of the northernmost castles in Europe. The exact date of construction of the castle is unclear, as far as it is known to have been built in the late 13th century, but the first mention of it in contemporary documents is from 1308. It was built close to Lake Vanajavesi.
An early 13th-century drawing by Matthew Paris showing contemporary warfare, including the use of castles (here Lincoln Castle), crossbowmen and mounted knights.
A reconstructed trebuchet at Château des Baux in Bouches-du-Rhône in the south of France.

Type of fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by military orders.

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Dating back to the early 12th century, the Alcázar of Segovia is one of the most distinctive castles in Europe.

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Bartolomeu de Gusmão presenting his invention to the court of John V of Portugal.

Royal court

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Clear, is an extended royal household in a monarchy, including all those who regularly attend on a monarch, or another central figure.

Clear, is an extended royal household in a monarchy, including all those who regularly attend on a monarch, or another central figure.

Bartolomeu de Gusmão presenting his invention to the court of John V of Portugal.
The Sikh 'Court of Lahore'.
The Macartney Embassy. Lord Macartney salutes the Qianlong Emperor, but refuses to kowtow.
The Dutch court is known for old traditions.
One of the series of the reliefs of the Persian and Median dignitaries at Apadana stairs of Persepolis, all with weapons, but in a casual air—a rare depiction of an ancient court ceremony.
A colonnade in Pharaoh Amenhotep III's royal court at Luxor.
"Triboulet", illustration for the theater play "Le Roi S'Amuse" ("The King Takes His Amusement") by Victor Hugo. Gravure by J. A. Beaucé (1818–1875) and Georges Rouget (1781–1869).
Catherine the Great and her court
Ambassador Kosa Pan and Siamese envoys pay their respect to Louis XIV at his court in Versailles.

Accordingly, some founded elaborate courts based on new palaces, only to have their successors retreat to remote castles or to practical administrative centers.

Basic ideal plan of a Roman castrum. (1)Principia; (2)Via Praetoria; (3)Via Principalis; (4)Porta Principalis Dextra; (5)Porta Praetoria (main gate); (6)Porta Principalis Sinistra; (7)Porta Decumana (back gate).

Castra

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Military-related term.

Military-related term.

Basic ideal plan of a Roman castrum. (1)Principia; (2)Via Praetoria; (3)Via Principalis; (4)Porta Principalis Dextra; (5)Porta Praetoria (main gate); (6)Porta Principalis Sinistra; (7)Porta Decumana (back gate).
Plan of a typical Roman fort.
Reconstructed gateway of a Castrum Stativum at Arbeia (South Shields). Note the battlements, the Roman arches, the turres.
Reconstruction of the specula or vigilarium (Germanic burgus), "watchtower", a type of castrum, at Rainau-Buch, Germany. An ancient watchtower would have been surrounded by wall and ditch.
The reconstructed porta praetoria of Castrum Pfünz, Germany, near the Rhaetian Limes.
Late Roman fort in Jordan
Late Roman Quadriburgium in Hungary
Castrum at Masada. Note the classical "playing-card" layout.
Reconstructed east gate of a Castrum Stativum, a more permanent base, at Welzheim, Germany.
Porta called Savoia, Susa, Piedmont, 275-290 BC.
Porta Decumana at Weißenburg, Bavaria, Germany
Model of the legionary fortress of Deva (Chester) plus adjoining amphitheatre in Britannia (reconstruction).
Not much remains of these horrea (granaries) at Arbeia, but the longitudinal supports for the floor can be seen.
Roman artillery piece (Onager)
A sanitary channel at Potaissa, Dacia (modern Romania). It is placed cross-slope with a slight decline and then exits down-slope.
Reconstructed barracks of a Castra Hiberna, or "winter camp", at Arbeia (South Shields). Each doorway provides entry to a large room, the sleeping quarters of one contubernium, or "squad" of about 10 men.
The pillars supported a raised floor to keep food dry and free from vermin in the northern granary at Housesteads Roman Fort (Vercovicium) on Hadrian's Wall.
An aureus of the late republic
The remains of the southern granary at Housesteads Roman Fort on Hadrian's Wall.

Castle has the same derivation, from the diminutive castellum or "little fort", but does not usually indicate a former Roman camp.

Murder holes at Bodiam Castle

Murder hole

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Hole in the ceiling of a gateway or passageway in a fortification through which the defenders could fire, throw or pour harmful substances or objects such as rocks, arrows, scalding water, hot sand, quicklime, or boiling oil, down on attackers.

Hole in the ceiling of a gateway or passageway in a fortification through which the defenders could fire, throw or pour harmful substances or objects such as rocks, arrows, scalding water, hot sand, quicklime, or boiling oil, down on attackers.

Murder holes at Bodiam Castle

Similar holes, called machicolations, were often located in the curtain walls of castles, fortified manor houses, and city walls.

Château de Ham

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Plan of the Citadelle de Ham
An old Postcard

The Château de Ham (also called fort or forteresse de Ham) is a castle in the commune of Ham in the Somme département in Hauts-de-France, France.

Château of Coucy, from across the Ailette valley, comparison between 2007 and 1909

Château de Coucy

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Château of Coucy, from across the Ailette valley, comparison between 2007 and 1909
Model of the castle as it looked before 1917
Plate depicts Castle of Coucy in the 13th century, describing architectural features
Rampart of the basse-cour
Château of Coucy, watercolor, ca 1820 (Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris)
Etching by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
The basse-cour and the donjon by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
Collapsed tower on the west part of the basse-cour
North-west tower of the castle by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
Inside of the donjon, by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
The ruins of the Great Hall in the Château de Coucy
model by the International Castle Research Society

The Château de Coucy is a French castle in the commune of Coucy-le-Château-Auffrique, in Picardy, built in the 13th century and renovated by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc in the 19th century.

Plan of Doorwerth Castle (Gelderland, the Netherlands)

Water castle

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Plan of Doorwerth Castle (Gelderland, the Netherlands)
Bodiam Castle (Sussex, England)
Mespelbrunn Castle (Bavaria, Germany)
Trakai Castle
Kasteel van Wijnendale (Wijnendale Castle)
Bad Rappenau
Brennhausen
Friedewald water castle
Schwerin Castle
Vischering Castle
Klaffenbach Castle, (16th century, Saxony)
Gommern Water Castle
Moritzburg Castle
Glücksburg Castle
Imabari Castle
Cannenburgh Castle
Otočec Castle
Kalmar Castle
Vittskövle Castle
Chillon Castle
Caerlaverock Castle
Caerphilly Castle

A water castle is a castle whose site is largely defended by water.

The Marksburg in Germany is a typical example of a hill castle

Hill castle

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The Marksburg in Germany is a typical example of a hill castle
The Ljubljana Castle in Slovenia is Medieval fortress, built in the 11th century and rebuilt in the 12th century
alt=A castle atop a mountain, a very usual position to defend it from a higher position.|Hohenzollern Castle at a height of 855 m in the Swabian Jura, Germany
The Montechino castle in Montechino, example of an Italian castle built on a hill

A hill castle or mountain castle is a castle built on a natural feature that stands above the surrounding terrain.

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Doornenburg Castle

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Chapel
Main gate
Castle wall
Castle wall
Castle courtyard

The Doornenburg Castle (Kasteel Doornenburg) is a Dutch castle from the 13th century.

Broadway Tower, Worcestershire, England

Folly

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Building constructed primarily for decoration, but suggesting through its appearance some other purpose, or of such extravagant appearance that it transcends the range of usual garden buildings.

Building constructed primarily for decoration, but suggesting through its appearance some other purpose, or of such extravagant appearance that it transcends the range of usual garden buildings.

Broadway Tower, Worcestershire, England
The Dunmore Pineapple in Scotland
Built in 1912, the Swallow's Nest is one of the Neo-Gothic châteaux fantastiques in Crimea.
Modern reconstruction of the Turkish Tent, a permanent structure at Painshill, Surrey
Hagley Castle is in the grounds of Hagley Hall. It was built by Sanderson Miller for George, Lord Lyttelton in the middle of the 18th century to look like a small ruined medieval castle.
The Pantheon at Stourhead estate
The Temple of Philosophy at Ermenonville in Oise, France
Roman ruin, Schönbrunn, Austria
Palais idéal – Hauterives, France
The minaret in the (Lednice–Valtice Complex, Czech Republic) was built by the House of Liechtenstein during 1797–1804
Conolly's Folly, County Kildare, Ireland, built to provide employment in the Irish famine of 1740–41
Lija Belvedere Tower in Malta
Temple of the Sibyl in the grounds of the Czartoryski Palace in Puławy, Poland
El Capricho, in Comillas, Spain
Classical ruins in Oleksandriia Park in Bila Tserkva, Ukraine
Rushton Triangular Lodge, Northamptonshire, England, built in the late 16th century to symbolise the Holy Trinity
Wimpole's Folly, Cambridgeshire, England, built in the 1700s to resemble Gothic-era ruins
The Beacon: One of the remaining follies at Staunton Country Park originally commissioned by George Thomas Staunton and designed by Lewis Vulliamy
Paxton's Tower, Carmarthenshire
Chateau Laroche, just north of Loveland, Ohio

Other 18th-century garden follies represented Chinese temples, Egyptian pyramids, ruined medieval castles or abbeys, or Tatar tents, to represent different continents or historical eras.

"Drogo does not pretend to be a castle. It is a castle..."

Castle Drogo

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"Drogo does not pretend to be a castle. It is a castle..."
Arms of Drewe of Castle Drogo: Ermine, a lion passant per pale gules and or in chief three ears of wheat stalked and bladed of the last. This is a differenced version of the arms of the Drewe family of Broadhembury, from whom Julius Drewe claimed descent
Arms showing lion passant and Motto in sculpted relief above the main entrance
Chapel & south façade of house

Castle Drogo is a country house and mixed-revivalist castle near Drewsteignton, Devon, England.