From the fairytale towers of Bavaria’s Neuschwanstein to the golden battlements of Jaipur’s Amber Fortress in India, these ...

Whether it's the romance of the turrets, the history in the stone, or the sheer artistry of their design, these fairytale castles are proof that great architecture never goes out of style.

Up on hillsides or huddled behind thick ramparts, these secret bastions tell the story of another face of the Algarve, one of ...

A wooden drawbridge provided access across the moat. The stone castles that we recognize today as emblematically medieval appeared from the 11th and 12th centuries onward, having developed out of ...

APPLEBY Archaeology Group has visited the Lowther Medieval Castle and Village.

Castles conjure up images of a romantic medieval past, the stuff of legends and fairy tales. But what exactly makes a castle, well, a castle? Usually built for royalty or nobility, castles are ...

This gorgeous medieval castle endured wars with little damage ... The original structure, built out of wood in 1212, was destroyed by the Mongols and later rebuilt from stone.

A group of 40 architects in Burgundy, France, is working on a project to build a castle called ' Château de Guédelon ' using medieval techniques and materials. The Château de Gedrun in northern ...

The carpenters, in turn, rely on the wood-cutters who go out into the ... Above all, building a medieval castle requires the skill and co-operation of a workforce functioning together as a community.