If Kronborg is the fortress of the Danish golden age, Frederiksborg is its dream palace. Rising on three small islands in the middle of a lake at Hillerød, north of
Some castles are famous for their history, and some for their beauty, but Kronborg is famous for a ghost that never existed. This great Renaissance fortress on the northern tip
We come at last to the Danube, and to one of the most magnificent castle-scapes in all of Europe. High on Castle Hill, above the great river that divides Budapest
Prepare to have your sense of scale recalibrated. Malbork, on the flat plain of northern Poland, is the largest castle in the world measured by land area, and the largest
There are castles that a nation loves, and then there is Wawel, which a nation almost worships. Rising on a limestone hill above the Vistula river in the heart of