B iely Kameň (White Stone) Castle, the ruins of which can be found in the hills above Svätý Jur, a small town near Bratislava, was constructed some time before 1271 and served as the seat of ...

Prior to that, a small ... The castle was destroyed in 1719 during the Jacobite rising and it remained in ruins for nearly 200 years. Like many of the famous castles in Europe that had also ...

A 400-year-old stone wall once part of Edo Castle, discovered only last year at what is now the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, is likely the castle’s oldest existing remnant ever unearthed ...

one of the largest of its kind in Europe. Built in 1076, it was William the Conqueror’s first stone castle in England, constructed on top of the ruins of the old Roman temple. Over the ...

The castle is situated on a very small island surrounded by lochs lined with leafy munros. Accessible only by an old stone footbridge, it's easy to see why the castle is considered such a special ...

The ruins of Shigetsu Castle’s stone walls lie further north of the location where the city’s cultural property protection division has assumed the castle stood. “It has raised the ...