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Edinburgh Castle is a fortress on Castle Rock in Scotland, notable as a royal stronghold and home of the Honours of Scotland crown jewels.
Wartburg Castle is a medieval fortress in Thuringia, Germany, where Martin Luther translated the New Testament into German after 1521.
Hohenzollern Castle is the ancestral seat of the House of Hohenzollern in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, rebuilt in Gothic Revival style in 1846-1867.
Karlštejn Castle is a Gothic castle in Czechia, founded by Charles IV in 1348 to safeguard imperial regalia and Bohemian crown jewels.
Harlech Castle is an Edward I fortress in Gwynedd, Wales, built from 1283, notable for its concentric defences and dramatic coastal setting.
Loarre Castle is a Romanesque fortress in Aragon, Spain, begun in the 11th century and noted for its well-preserved medieval walls.
Castle of the Moors is a hilltop fortress in Sintra, Portugal, built by the Moors in the 8th and 9th centuries and taken after Lisbon fell in 1147.
Hohenwerfen Castle is an 11th-century Salzburg fortress in Austria, built for Archbishop Gebhard on a rock above the Salzach valley.
Książ Castle is a major castle in Lower Silesia, Poland, linked to the Hochberg family and altered during Nazi Project Riese.
Corfe Castle is a ruined Dorset fortress begun by William the Conqueror and destroyed by Parliamentarian forces after a Civil War siege in 1646.
Burg Kreuzenstein is a Lower Austrian castle rebuilt from 1874 to 1906 by Count Johann Nepomuk Wilczek using medieval fragments.
Sao Jorge Castle is Lisbon's hilltop fortress, taken by Afonso Henriques in 1147 and later used as a Portuguese royal residence.
Reichsburg Cochem is a Moselle hill castle in Germany, first recorded in 1130 and rebuilt in Gothic Revival style after Louis Ravené bought it in 1868.
Château de Saumur is a Loire fortress and residence in France, rebuilt by the dukes of Anjou and pictured in the Très Riches Heures.
Riegersburg Castle is a Styrian fortress in Austria, standing on an extinct volcanic rock, with castle history traced to 1122.
Wernigerode Castle is a Harz mountain schloss in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, given its present Historicist form by Count Otto by 1893.
Ogrodzieniec Castle is a ruined Gothic stronghold in southern Poland, built on limestone rocks along the Trail of the Eagles' Nests.
Château de Foix is a Pyrenean fortress in southern France, seat of the counts of Foix and marked by three medieval towers above the town.
Penafiel Castle is a long ridge-top fortress in Valladolid, Spain, rebuilt in the 15th century and known for its narrow, ship-like plan.
Marienburg Castle is a Gothic Revival residence near Hanover, Germany, built in 1858-1867 by King George V for Queen Marie.
Bolsover Castle is a 17th-century Derbyshire castle created by the Cavendish family and noted for the ornate Little Castle overlooking the Vale of Scarsdale.
Guimaraes Castle is a 10th century fortress in northern Portugal, founded by Mumadona Dias and linked to Afonso Henriques, Portugal's first king.
Eger Castle is a Hungarian fortress notable for the 1552 siege, when Istvan Dobo's defenders resisted a large Ottoman army.
Marugame Castle is an Edo period hilltop castle in Kagawa, Japan, whose current three story wooden keep was built under the Kyogoku clan in 1660.
Olesko Castle is a hilltop castle in western Ukraine, best known as the traditional birthplace of Polish king John III Sobieski in 1629.
Beeston Castle is a ruined hilltop fortress in Cheshire, England, built in the 1220s by Ranulf de Blondeville and set on a sandstone crag.
