Castles

The organizers of Untold, the biggest electronic music festival in Romania, have found a way of making tourists spend more time in Transylvania and visit the most famous tourist attractions in the area. Untold, which starts on Thursday, August 4, is expected to bring some 350,000 electronic music fans to Cluj-Napoca, in the heart of … Continue reading »

Both the Peles and Pelisor Castles in Sinaia mountain resort will be closed for several days next week for Queen Anne’s funerals. Peles Castle will be closed to the public between August 8 and August 11. Queen Anne’s body will be placed in the castle’s Hall of Honor from August 9, 17:00 until August 10, … Continue reading »

Bollywood thriller which brought £500,000 to the economy during filming across Kent to be released this month 15:00 03 August 2016 Tom Pyman Leeds Castle Archant Locations used in the production included Canterbury, Maidstone river path and County Hall, Leeds Castle, Aylesford, and The Historic Dockyard Chatham A Bollywood movie that was filmed across the … Continue reading »

Via Redfin The Oak Glen area is known for its apple orchards (especially popular during apple-picking season), but the on-site orchard is probably not what this property is famous for. The four-bedroom castle sits on a 7.5-acre piece of land that also includes “stained glass windows, curved staircases, drawbridge, moat,” and stone walls encircling the … Continue reading »

An 80-room Italian castle owned by the same family since the fourteenth century is set to change hands for the first time in nearly 650 years. Castel Valer, located in the foothills of the Dolomites, was constructed over half a millennium from 1200-1700 and was acquired by the Spaur family in 1368.  The estate, which combines architecture from … Continue reading »

Alnwick Castle is not only one of the largest inhabited castles in England and 1,000 years old, it’s also something of a movie star. This pictureque castle is one of the most iconic in Britain, having made appearances in popular films and television shows such as Elizabeth, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, the Downton Abbey … Continue reading »

Duino Castle, just north of Trieste, Italy.Aconcagua/Wikimedia Commons Each week, Roads & Kingdoms and Slate publish a new dispatch from around the globe. For more foreign correspondence mixed with food, war, travel, and photography, visit their online magazine or follow @roadskingdoms on Twitter. Somewhere on the Adriatic between the Miramare and Duino castles just north of the … Continue reading »

A CASTLE used by a former owner as a pigsty is on the market for £1.5m. Orchil Castle – near Gleneagles in Perthshire – looks to all of the world like an impressive baronial castle. But the towering turrets, sprawling gardens and private loch did not seem to impress one former owner – who used … Continue reading »

SIRMIONE, Italy, July 25, 2016/ Troy Media / – in Northern Italy is the largest of the celebrated Italian Lakes. Aside from its sheer size, it is also famous for its dramatic landscape of rolling hills and the towering mountains which surround the lake. The town of Desenzano del Garda  gets the most concentration of tourists … Continue reading »

They say a man’s home is his castle. In the case of mine developer and railroad magnate Anson Phelps Stokes, the saying was quite literal. Stokes was one of several wealthy east coast investors that saw opportunities to enhance their fortune in the American West. Riding the wave of the silver boom in the nearby town … Continue reading »