Italy- Rivalta Castle. Made in the 11th Century (I love how cute it is :D )
ITT: Your favorite castle/forts
Carter Richardson
Ethan Reed
Haiti- Citadelle Laferrière. Made in the 19th Century by former Haitian slaves in their war of independence with France.
Eli Green
Italy- Roseto Capo Spulic. I like how well it blends in with the mountain desu
Oliver Bailey
Gruyere/Greyerz in the Romandie or Eltz in Germany, the frescoes in it are gorgeous.
David Gray
I like our castle
Aiden Lee
Italy- Pallotta Castle. More beautiful than practical imho
Nice!
Nathaniel Clark
la royala détreont (1628)
Anthony Morgan
Kayden Perez
Burg Eltz.
Cute little castle with a long history. The same family lives there for more than 800 years now.
Zachary Johnson
Which castle looks best in person? You know without that drone shit since I can't fly
Josiah Baker
Japan- Shimabara Castle.
Interesting history about this castle. The lord of the castle was a bloke called Matsukura Shigemasa who got appointed there by the Shogun because he was ruthless against the suppression of Christianity, which Japan was trying to get rid of with mass executions and unpayable tax fines. This led to a massive revolt called the 'Shimabara Rebellion, which was doomed to fail to begin with since the Catholic's were outnumbered massively by the Nips.
It's interesting to note that in the one-in-a-million chance that it didnt fail, Japan would have been a Christian country today.
Very trendy looking. When was it made?
Is that legit?
Nice, it's pretty but it looks like a very stereotypical castle to me desu
Blake Gutierrez
A bit of a cliche answer, I guess, but I don't care.
Levi Morgan
Syria- Allepo Fort. One of the oldest forts in the world. It's passed hands from native Syrians to the (ancient) Greeks, Byzantines, Ayyubids, Mamluks and of course the Ottomans.
It was the base of Imad ad-Din Zengi invasions against the Crusaders which would eventually lead to the beginning of the fall of the Crusader states.
Nice, that would have been awful to run a siege on. And why cliched?
Jack Martin
>And why cliched?
its the most well known castle in slovenia
and it inspired a fan made map in csgo
Camden White
The Predjama castle, the Ljubljana castle and the Bled castle are the ones most well-known.
The cave behind the castle leads to the other side of the hill, there's a legend about how a bandit noble called Erazem smuggled food in during a siege and ate grapes on the castle walls to demoralise the enemies outside.
Luis Anderson
Schloss Lichtenstein
William Ortiz
1785 its not that old
It was supposed to be the castle for the viceroys
But it was only used by mexican emperors and later presidents
Henry Robinson
Abandonned castle of La Mothe-Chandeniers
Landon Bennett
Chase Clark
how can non-french people even compete?
Isaac Cruz
India- Kangra Fort. Another fort that was also conquered by the ancient Greeks. From what I can tell its passed hands between Indian Rajputs, Turks, Sikhs and Gurkhas.
It was called the 'Impregnable Kangra' by Alexander the Great and it's pretty durable. Even the Mughal Emperor Akbar failed to take it with a massive army and state of the art technology.
Although his son Jahangir took it a decade after, even with 17th century cannons it still took him 14 months to break through and conquer it. Impressive for such an old fort.
Fair enough. Nice lore.
Pretty
Mexico's a newer country then most here so I doubt you'd have many castles but there are forts right?
Elijah Morgan
>langra fort
Was this a defence structure in some sort of war?
I like pic related. The inside is pretty amazing.
Hudson Hall
Matthew Richardson
We have a few castles that some rich spaniards and Hernan Cortez himself built and several forts I can think this one in Veracruz and another one called Fort of San Carlos Perote
Nicholas Sanchez
Bentley Davis
it looks haunted
Hudson Edwards
Turkey- Afyonkarahisar castle.
The oldest one so far. Made 3300 years ago by a ancient Hittite king called Murshill. It was later taken and passed bloody hands between the Phrygians, Lydians, Persian Achaemenids, ancient Greeks, Byzantium, Seljuq Turks, Timur and finally the Ottomans.
It thrived under the Ottomans mainly as a base of opium manufacturing...
>Was this a defence structure in some sort of war?
Yes, it seems a rocky mountain was shaped with various walls in almost a maze like way to confuse and disorient invaders.
Very pretty. It seems modern.
Wyatt Brown
It is haunted by tourists
Evan Brooks
it's actually from about 1100, but the Hohenzollern's modernized it over time until 1700 I think
Jeremiah Cox
Poland- Tenczyn Castle. Once the most important and luxurious part of Poland it was eventually ransacked by greedy Swedish invaders in search of the Polish Royal Jewels.
Even after capturing the castle and slaughtering all of its inhabitants they burned down the castle in a fit of rage after not being able to find the jewels they first invaded for.
First started to be built in the fourteenth century and was completely finished in the 16th century. Destroyed in the 18th century.
Cool, is it still used today or is it a tourist site now?
Juan Sanders
>tfw Jow Forums is dead right now
:(
Columbia- Tulum Fort. Probably the saddest one so far imo.
An ancient Mayan Fort that was sturdy enough to survive and protect its inhabitants even decades after the Spaniards occupied Mexico. But eventually Old World diseases did their work and wiped most of them out.
Said to be instructed between the 13th and 15th Century. It was the last castle ever built by the Mayans.
Nathaniel Hughes
Cool stuff, thanks for sharing. What did you mean by Columbia, thought?
Zachary Jackson
> Reichsburg Cochem
Nice castle in an nice landscape.
Jaxson Hernandez
I love castle and castle threads
I wish people would post more interiors though
Logan White
Spain- ruins of the Gormaz Castle. Built by the first Muslim ruler of Spain and creator of the emirate of Cordoba, Abd al-Rahman. It was apparently one of the largest castles in Europe then.
Built in the 8th century.
Thanks.
I mean its located in modern day Colombia. Of course modern day Colombia is completely different to the old Mayans.
Thomas Gutierrez
You must be thinking of some other fort, Mayans lived on the Yucatan and Wikipedia places Tulum there.
Ryder Nelson
Finland- Turku castle.
One of the oldest castles in Finland, it played an important role in the internal struggles between Sweden and the Kalmar union and was sieged numerous times (most famously when Russian invaders destroyed it in the 14th century). It lost its importance in the 17th century and was later denoted as a prison.
Very grim looking desu.
It was made in the 13th century.
>I wish people would post more interiors though
Feel free to post them. I'm just posting the castles which caught my eye even if they may not be very aesthetically speaking.
Yeah sorry about that, after a second look I made an error. It's located in Mexico I just assumed it was a colony or something.
Michael Reed
Closer look on the castle.
Juan Johnson
Pena Palace, Sintra, Portugal.
Adrian Jones
It is built on the top of a mountain and around it is a really magical forest. Full of different themed gardens. If i was going to trip on halluciongens some where it must have been here. At one point you walk up a path and see this castle in the distance, feels outlandish.
Isaiah Morales
Close by is also Castillo Regaleira. There are vast cave systems around them formerly used for masons etc, inspired by dantes inferno.
Parker Campbell
Ukraine/Crimea -The Genoese fortress of Sudak. Another ancient fortress.
I'll speak about the town first. Sudak was first taken by the ancient Greeks from the Alans, who then renamed it Sugeda. Centuries later it would be conquered and renamed by Khazar Turks to 'Sudaq'. The Khazars would eventually be thrown out by the Byzantines and for the next century it would have no definite ruler although the land was still under Turkic domain. During this time it grew to be one of the largest city centers in the region.
Eventually the Mongol invasion outsed the Turks and the Byzantines retook it... only for the fort to experience it's bloodiest age as it was continually attacked and raided by Mongolian hordes and Tatar invaders for the next century.
It was eventually conquered by the Crimean Khanate in the 15th century, who then gave the town its current name of 'Sudak'.
The fortress itself was built from the 14th century.
Surreal
Aiden Nguyen
It's actually called Åbo castle. I don't think it is fair to use phony Finnish name when it was built by Swedes tbqh
Noah Phillips
Caslte of Santa Maria da Feira is the one I liked more when visiting. Felt just like AOE2 there.
Angel Lee
Scotland- Stalker Castle.
First built in the 14th century by the Clan McDouggel, it passed hands peacefully a few decades later to the Clan Stewarts who built it up to what it was.
Eventually the Stewarts lost it to the Campbell Clan around 1620 in a drunken bet with King James IV of Scotland.
The Campbells later abandoned it in the mid-19th century where a rich Stewart clan member then repurchased it and began repairing it.
This is my last one, hope you all enjoyed the ride.
Funnily enough, because Finland was the first frontier for Sweden from eastern invaders, they built all their castles in Finland and have no real ones of their own. Only forts.
Jeremiah Torres
Not in the 11th century. Shut up.
Ryan Murphy
First written source for it is in the 11th century.
Nicholas Mitchell
>Funnily enough, because Finland was the first frontier for Sweden from eastern invaders, they built all their castles in Finland and have no real ones of their own. Only forts.
There are no castles in Finland, but we have plenty in Sweden. They aren't as spectacular as continental castles however.
Joshua Gonzalez
It didn't look like that at the time, study the history of European architecture.
Jordan Perez
>There are no castles in Finland
?
Cameron Price
Okay, sorry, we built a few for you.
Brayden Walker
I can see it from my house, far in the distance.
Justin Hughes
Why so butthurt?
Cameron Moore
All view Himeji castle is like this.
Austin Lee
Why are you mad? Because there are no pretty castles in your shitty little terroni nigger village?
Nathan Perry
Excuse me?
Levi Cruz
in all of shitaly there isn't a single decent castle lol
Owen Jenkins
imagine taking a girl home to that place
Mason Allen
Many castles were obviously renovated over time, if they weren't they'd be rundown.
Adrian Hill
Such a eurotrash thing to do desu
Isaiah Peterson
And then consummate the alliance with her daddy in this
Christian Evans
and breeding some inbred beautiful children
Isaac Flores
XIII sec terronia
Benjamin Powell
Italy - Miramare castle
Lucas Cruz
That one's a beauty for sure
Elijah Rodriguez
not a proper castle, thats just a huge villa
Liam James
That's the final stage of the evolution of the castle
Aiden Hernandez
>Schloss Lichtenstein
LIECHTENSTEIN, its Liechtenstein!
Depp
Jacob Ramirez
Looks like something from The Chronicles of Amber, I plan on visiting it this summer since it's fucking astounding.
Wyatt Perez
Looks even better irl
Liam Reed
Posting some less known ones.
Noah Baker
:3
Jason Powell
This thing in Tibet
Zachary Ward
Inside here is the oldest church/chapel in Germany.
Aiden Young
Not exactly beautiful, but massive and try getting up there.
Josiah Jackson
Gabriel Powell
Owen Gonzalez
No great walls, but well, at least you are safe from blacks.
Matthew Cooper
I wish I visited this castle instead of Kanazawa. I was sad that there was no historical building, only maps with what it had to look like. The warehouse was pretty neat, though.
Connor Miller
We blew most castles up during the French invasions.
Nathan Williams
Kinda the same style.
Robert Bailey
Jonathan Flores
But those that didn't have to be blown up to prevent them to be taken by the French look like this
Leo Nelson
Is Mont Saint Michel a castle?
Jaxson Long
Jaxson Mitchell
No, It's an abbey built by Saint-Aubert, bishop of Cambrai
Connor Moore
Jordan Green
Castle with walled yard
Christian Price
Doesn't look like much, but because it is in the middle of Nürnberg which was (and still is) fortified pretty damn strong it was never taken - outside of modern day wars, of course.
Asher Price
>pic related, old pic of the city
Luke Gray
not a castle, if villas are allowed then this is my entry
Brandon Perry
>pic is parts of the city wall today
Samuel Powell
And I am out.
Justin Barnes
Sforzesco Castle
Tyler Parker
Valkhof, the old palts of Charlemagne. Unfortunately it was bombarded by the French in 1794 so badly that most of it had to be demolished in 1796. Only a chapel from the time of emperor Koenraad II and one built by Barbarossa do still remain.
Joshua Rogers
As it was before 1794
Austin Thompson
The 1000 year old chapel
Jonathan Davis
Arundel Castle, England. First built in 1067 by one of William the Conqueror's companions. Over the centuries it was expanded to accommodate an Empress, stand against contemporary siege weapons and to better serve the domestic needs of its owners. It was damaged in the English Civil War, but was fully restored by 1815. The current family have controlled it for over 400 years.
Looks cosy in my opinion.
Nicholas Richardson
Buonconsiglio Castle
Liam Butler
Isn't it cooler to visit authentic medieval castles rather than this eccentric piece of fantasy?