High above the ancient city of Cusco, at over three and a half thousand metres in the thin air of the Peruvian Andes, stand some of the most astonishing stone

Almost everyone who comes to this corner of Bavaria comes to see Neuschwanstein, the impossibly famous fairy-tale castle on its crag. But there is a second castle in the valley

On the edge of a sheer cliff in southern Germany, so close to the drop that it seems to grow out of the rock itself, stands a slender white castle

Deep in the wooded hills of the Spessart, in a hidden valley far from any main road, there is a castle so perfectly pretty and so perfectly placed that it

In the wooded hills of the Harz, in the heart of Germany, there is a town of painted timber houses so pretty that it looks like a stage set, and

In the north of Germany, in a region of a thousand lakes, there is a castle that seems to rise straight out of the water. Set on its own small

Some places seem to belong more to legend than to history, and Sigiriya is one of them. Rising almost two hundred meters sheer from the jungle plains of central Sri

Come over a rise in the road in the Spiš region of eastern Slovakia and the sight stops you cold: an immense sprawl of pale stone walls and towers riding

There is an old saying that whoever holds Stirling holds Scotland, and for most of the country’s history it was simply true. Stirling Castle stands on a great crag rising

On a small coral island in the Red Sea, linked to the Sudanese mainland by a single causeway, stands one of the most hauntingly beautiful ruined cities in Africa. This