On the shore of the most famous stretch of water in Scotland, perhaps in the world, stand the broken walls of Urquhart Castle. Below them lie the deep, dark, cold

Some castles impress you with their size, others with their beauty. The Wartburg does something rarer: it makes you feel that you are standing at one of the places where

If you had to pick one castle to show someone who had never seen a real medieval fortress, you could do a lot worse than Warwick. Rising sheer above the

Picture a castle that has been somebody’s home for nearly a thousand years, without a single break. Not a ruin, not a museum piece roped off behind glass, but a