There is a fair chance that when you picture a Scottish castle, the image in your head is Eilean Donan, even if you have never heard the name. A small,

There is a famous Welsh song, fierce and stirring, called Men of Harlech, sung by choirs and soldiers for generations and known to millions who have never set foot in

There is a particular moment that catches almost everyone who arrives in Heidelberg. You come around a bend, or you step onto the Old Bridge, and there it is above

Fly into Salzburg, or simply round a corner in its old town, and one thing dominates everything: a vast white fortress riding the crest of a green hill, floating above

Rising from a solitary conical mountain in the gentle hills of southern Germany, Hohenzollern Castle is one of the most dramatic and romantic sights in all of Europe. On clear

Among the wooded hills southwest of Prague, above a bend in a quiet river, rises one of the most magnificent castles in central Europe: Karlštejn. Its towers climb the steep

Some castles are famous for a single thing. Kenilworth is famous for at least three, and any one of them would earn it a place in the history books. It

There is a photograph that gets taken a few million times a year: a honey-coloured castle seeming to float on a still lake in the Kent countryside, its towers doubled

The Rhine gorge between Bingen and Koblenz is famous for its castles. There are dozens of them, perched on crags and vineyards above the river, one after another, a stone

Rising like a vision from the sands where Normandy meets Brittany, Mont Saint-Michel is one of the most extraordinary sights in the world. A steep rocky island crowned by a