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Over 900 years old, Skipton Castle is one of the most complete and best preserved medieval castles in England and is well worth a visit at any season of the year.
Visitors can explore every corner of this impressive history-rich castle, which withstood a three-year siege during the Civil War. View the Banqueting Hall, the Kitchen, the Bedchamber and Privy. Climb from the depths of the Dungeon to the top storey of the Watch Tower.
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08:00 EST, 5 October 2016
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Updated:
09:21 EST, 5 October 2016
Rising up from the rolling Yorkshire landscape, it is an unusual hill thought to have been built by the Norman conquerors as they tried to subdue England after the Battle of Hastings.
For centuries, archaeologists believed the 42-feet high mound was the remains of a motte and bailey-style castle built in the wake of the battle in 1066.
But a new study has revealed it may in fact be a gi… (View original article)
Eltz Castle is situated on a high narrow rock surrounded by even higher hills, above the Moselle river between Koblenz and Trier in the West of Germany. To get to the castle from the nearest parking lot or bus stop, you take an easy walk through the forest, gradually descending until the last bend in the path, when suddenly the forest opens to a breathtaking view that takes you straight into the middle ages…. (View original article)
Lanarkshire targets £9 million annual tourism growth
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Category: Agency & Association
Published: Wednesday, 05 October 2016 15:00
The report has been developed following in-depth research in partnership with private, public and third sector organisations. The three main areas identified for growth are leisure tourism, business tourism and customer service training to encourage repeat business. The strategy is based on the following themes:
• Turning assets into quality exper… (View original article)
Get your running shoes ready for the Penrith Rotary Club Charity Fun Run or more challenging 10km Trail Run on Sunday 9th October in the spectacular setting of the Lowther Estate.
Set against the backdrop of Lowther Castle this event has grown in popularity since it first began seven years ago. This year the Fun Run and Trail Run will give participants the opportunity to run on parts of the Lowther Estate that aren’t normally open to the public and be in with a chance of winning some… (View original article)
There is definitely something special about visiting a castle. It inspires us to dream of knighthood or perhaps someone like King Arthur during a period when kings and queens ruled over their kingdoms. Dreams can still come true the instant you visit or stay in one of Europe’s great castles.
Parador de Oropesa, Spain
Based on legend, this fourteenth-century castle located in the foothills of the Sierra de Gredos was built on a site presumed to have been founded by Hercules in 17… (View original article)
Queen Victoria is being given a much-needed deep clean – or at least her statue is anyway.
The famous marble sculpture which greets visitors to Kensington Palace , her childhood home, is undergoing a thorough three-week wash which will see it restored to its refulgent best.
The statue was designed and carved by the Queen’s fourth daughter Princess Louise, a talented artist, and commissioned in 1887 to celebrate her Golden Jubilee. It bears a close likeness to the coronatio… (View original article)
ON 22 SEPTEMBER 1882, a fire swept through the Sydney Royal Botanic Garden, reducing both its Garden Palace and large catalogue of Indigenous cultural objects to ash. As part of the Gardens bicentenary celebrations, and to commemorate the loss of these artefacts and associated Aboriginal knowledge, Jonathan Jones has created an installation called barrangal dyara (skin and bones), which traces the building’s physical outline with 15,000 ash-white shields.
Jonathan Jones places shie… (View original article)
Two “extinct” Wentworth elms have been discovered at Holyrood Palace. The free-standing tree to the right of the palace is one of them. (Image: Carol Walker/CC BY-SA 2.0)During a recent survey of trees in the Queen’s garden at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, Scotland, botanists were shocked to discover the presence of two elms thought to be extinct for nearly a half century.
The two trees belong to a species known as the Wentworth elm, and scientists thought it had gone ex… (View original article)
Vienna Design Week 2016: London design studio Fredrikson Stallard has brought its glimmering Prologue installation to Vienna’s baroque Belvedere Palace (+ slideshow).
An interpretation of the sun, Prologue contains 8,000 Swarovski crystals held in a round frame. It is four metres high and weighs more than a tonne.
In its temporary home at the Belvedere – which these days houses an art museum – the installation’s amber-coloured crystals catch light as it streams into the pala… (View original article)