Situated in the heart of the Maine-et-Loire region, the Château de Doué-la-Fontaine is home to Europe's oldest stone keep ...

This gorgeous medieval castle endured wars with little damage—in fact, it's looked pretty much the same since the late Middle Ages. Back when the national currency of Germany was the Deutsche ...

With their history, architecture and surrounding landscape, these Irish castles are testament to the cultural richness of the ...

Castles conjure up images of a romantic medieval past, the stuff of legends and fairy tales. But what exactly makes a castle, well, a castle? Usually built for royalty or nobility, castles are ...

Once upon a time, popular culture used to embrace charming or comic fantasies about the Middle Ages. From Camelot to Monty Python, Disney castles to Medieval Times dinner theater, we dreamt of the ...

Yet its grandeur is undimmed: Cadw's website proudly proclaims that it is 'recognised around the world as one of the greatest buildings of the Middle Ages,' and they're entirely right to do so.

There are all kinds of projects to recreate the kind of village that would have existed beside a castle like this 800 years ago. A garden grows plants indigenous to the area in the Middle Ages.

A mysterious castle is located in the middle of a frozen lake in Poland, but nobody knows who owns it or how they finished it. The odd, yet magnificent, building has been recorded from the air but ...