NORTHERN BURGUNDY, France — Deep in ... would have existed beside a castle like this 800 years ago. A garden grows plants indigenous to the area in the Middle Ages. "We grow only medieval ...

Castles in France are part of the landscape and beautiful to admire. Exploring French castles is a great way to soak up history as well.

Its high altitude location proved to be an important vantage point for France's leaders throughout the Middle Ages. However, the castle was abandoned after the Thirty Years' War in the 1600s.

The High Middle Ages brought majestic castles ... and from distance Scotland to the south of France, castles and palaces provided a stage for the festivities of the medieval world, of chivalrous ...

TREIGNY, France Maryline Martin, like a lot of little French girls, was besotted with the Middle Ages, with castles and maidens and knights. She worked for Pier 1 Imports for a while ...

But it was during the Middle Ages, and in response to the evolution ... over the countryside near Carcassonne in southwest France. The castle was built in the late 1200s after the village was ...

More than 20 years ago, a community of men and women in the French region of Burgundy set themselves a massive challenge: to build a castle using the techniques of the Middle Ages. The site in the ...

The paintings of Caspar David Friedrich or the novels of Sir Walter Scott represent very well this Middle Ages of castles, exploits and duels between knights for the love of a lady. Obviously ...