The medieval Elitz Castle in Germany. The Elitz family has owned and lived there since the 1200s, 33 generations of them.
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Show us some castle photos
:) I'm making notes for our return to Europe next year
Such a magical place with the snow and trees i love it and the photograph
Welcome to Cake, KMS! 🎂
Beautiful photographs of this castle MountainMom a faitytale home for some lucky owner the trees surrounding it are gorgeous in all season.
Thankyou Chris
I have a lot of castle photos saved from places I've never been, but which make me dream...but since there has been some discussion of what they were like to visit:
This is Warwick Castle (Warwickshire, England.) I visited it in 1994 or so, purely by accident: I spotted it from the motorway and my family decided to trust to serendipity. At the time, while it was being operated as an attraction (and still is), a wing was still inhabited by the Earls of Warwick, and off-limits. I don't know if they're still there!
The modern-day Earls may not be Nevilles, but the Nevilles are the most famous Earls of Warwick. King Edward IV's mother, Cecily Neville, was from the extended family, and Edward's brothers married the Earl's daughters -- George, Duke of Clarence (the first man to be imprisoned in the Tower of London, notoriously said to have been drowned there in his favorite wine) married Isabel Neville, while Richard, Duke of Gloucester (Richard III) married Anne Neville (he was her second husband, and he had to sign a sort of prenup essentially waiving any rights to her inheritance, to get his family to agree to it -- George was NOT eager to share his heiress's windfall!) The Earls of Warwick were so politically powerful that Isabel and Anne's father, the 16th Earl, was known as the Kingmaker for his importance in the Wars of the Roses.
The castle is gorgeous, and the views of the countryside are exquisite. It may be more well known now, but when we went in 1994, there were NO tour groups and very few other people there. Just us and centuries of history, beautifully preserved.
Ok Chris, where is it.
It's in central Germany. Here's its fascinating history, plus some stuff about Neuschwanstein nobody knows (they were both rebuilt from stone ruins in the 1800s, this one by a wealthy businessman from Berlin).
Here's Civita in central Italy. It looks like a castle but it's a village with a nice church, access via pedestrian walkway:
Hohenzollern in Germany again!
Matsumoto castle in Japan The curse of being a photographer is I can tell how it was photoshopped.
Italy. Technically a church, but looks like a castle to me.
Does anyone know where this is?
Rock of Cashel:
According to local legends, the Rock of Cashel originated in the Devil's Bit, a mountain 20 miles (30 km) north of Cashel when St. Patrick banished Satanfrom a cave, resulting in the Rock's landing in Cashel.[1] Cashel is reputed to be the site of the conversion of the King of Munster by St. Patrick in the 5th century.
The Rock of Cashel was the traditional seat of the kings of Munster for several hundred years prior to the Norman invasion. In 1101, the King of Munster, Muirchertach Ua Briain, donated his fortress on the Rock to the Church. The picturesque complex has a character of its own and is one of the most remarkable collections of Celtic art and medieval architecture to be found anywhere in Europe.[2] Few remnants of the early structures survive; the majority of buildings on the current site date from the 12th and 13th centuries.
Photo of internal stairs from Cahir castle:
The stairs are deliberatly built with steps of different heights and climbing in a clockwise direction so a right handed attacker's sword is close to the right hand side and is less effective.
I recently watched a BBC documentary on the Norman conquest of England / Ireland. They built castles across Britain and Ireland. It's worth a look:
