If you had to design the perfect fairy-tale castle, you might well end up with something very like Corvin. Rising above a river in the Transylvanian town of Hunedoara, with

Stand on the battlements of Dover Castle on a clear day and you can see France. That single fact explains almost everything about the place. For two thousand years, this

On a green island in the waters west of Stockholm stands the most beautiful royal palace in Sweden, a serene baroque masterpiece so graceful that it has earned the nickname

In the heart of Dublin, on a site that has been a centre of power since the earliest days of the city, stands a complex of towers, courtyards, and grand

Most castles are content to guard one town or one stretch of coast. Dublin Castle set out to rule a whole country. For the better part of seven hundred years

Some castles impress you. Dunnottar stops you in your tracks. Perched on the flat top of a great rock that juts out into the North Sea, all but severed from

There are castles that dominate a town, and then there is Edinburgh Castle, which dominates a whole nation’s imagination. Rising on a sheer black crag in the very centre of

On the Danish island of Funen there stands a castle so perfect that it seems almost unreal, a Renaissance stronghold of red brick rising sheer from the waters of its

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,

Some historic places are visited for their beauty, but Elmina Castle is visited for its truth. Rising white and serene above the surf on the coast of Ghana, it is