Visit Neuschwanstein Castle, the iconic fairy-tale castle in Bavaria, Germany, that inspired Disney's Sleeping Beauty Castle
Visit Wawel Castle, a historic castle complex and UNESCO World Heritage Site in Krakow, Poland, known for its royal chambers, cathedral, and dragon legend.
Explore the Szlak Orlich Gniazd (Trail of the Eagles' Nests), a historic route in Poland featuring medieval castles and fortresses.
Visit the largest castle in the world by land area, located in Malbork, Poland, and explore its medieval history and architecture.
Historic fortress town in the highlands.
Clifftop Transylvanian castle marketed as Dracula’s — worth it either way.
Deep Highland loch with a ruined castle shore and a famous resident legend.
The largest ancient castle complex in the world, with St Vitus Cathedral, the Golden Lane cottages and the hourly guard change.
Two castles face each other across the river — Estonian Hermann and Russian Ivangorod — on the EU border.
The first capital of modern Greece: Venetian fortresses, a Bourtzi island castle and neoclassical lanes.
A castle on a crag above the battlefields of Wallace and Bruce — Scotland's history in one town.
Second tower on Monte Titano’s highest summit, home to the ancient-arms museum.
A 17th-century British fortress on a volcanic hill, the "Gibraltar of the West Indies", with views to five islands.
Restored gateway fortress and madrasas on the old road west of Dushanbe.
Restored Romanesque-Gothic castle above the Our river, one of the largest west of the Rhine, with a chairlift to the view.
Ottoman fortress on the Dniester.
Cliff-carved tunnel fortifications.
Medieval castle above Balzers.
Clifftop Spanish fort over San Juan.
Castle above a horseshoe harbour.
Red-brick Gothic castle on an island in Lake Galve, home of the Karaim community and their kibinai pastries.
Fortress park above the meeting of the Sava and the Danube.
Mighty medieval castle, UNESCO-listed.
Mountaintop fortress, UNESCO-listed.
Majestic riverside fortress-monastery.
Red-brick castle above the Gauja.
Round medieval fortress on the Dniester.
A 17th-century round tower fort with murder holes and honey traps, beside Nizwa’s Friday goat market.
Renaissance castle built into the mouth of a cliff cave, with secret tunnels used by a robber knight.
Dutch colonial ramparts around a living town of boutique hotels, lighthouse and cricket on the green.
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