cool castles

>>5004522 (OP)

>>5004582

>>5004597

>>5004598

>>5004599
RUN AWAY!!!

Riegersburg Castle. I live 15 mins away from it. they have an interesting exhibition on the regional witch hunts inside and a lot of the rooms' fresci are in pretty good shape

>>5005075
looks like the one featured in Forza Horizon 4's dlc Fortune Island

>>5005131
That's eilean donan castle, aka the highlander castle. Also used in the the world is not enough, rob roy, entrapment etc.

>>5006746
I should definitely recognize it as I've seen all those since I was a kid.

>>5006840
Not a castle. It's a monastery.

I think this was alnswick castle. There were retards doing harry potter larp.

>>5004653
>that filename
I love reverse-translating Western names and words back from Russian, took me a while to figure out that "nojshvanshtajn" is "Neuschwanstein". Even more confusing since it's not Neuschwanstein in the picture

Reichsburg Cochem, Germany

>>5011967
wow nice. i love engravings.

>>5013899
new wallpaper for my phone

A French castle in Syria built during the Crusades.

Courtesy of myself to thank good shit posters. Roquefixade castle, France

And another one, same region, castle of Foix

great thread

Bump

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>>5004654
I fart in your general direction.

Private bump

>>5021065

>>5023842

Outstanding. What a master Doré is. Thx for sharing

>>5024974

Looks like a retarded castle

>>5004524
>Beaumaris Castle
thats not its Caernarfon Castle

>>5025117
why

>>5029055
man... does such a place really exist?

>>5029677
Yes, but it's a lot more developed now.
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.9226243,5.1294569,3a,71.5y,179.31h,103.28t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sXX3gpfq0LUFMDJbcnkQ4vA!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D-13.278158364501309%26panoid%3DXX3gpfq0LUFMDJbcnkQ4vA%26yaw%3D179.30731156119367!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu

>>5029677
Couldn't find a pic with that exact framing, but yes it exists.
Just outside Fontaine de Vaucluse, though the castle is in ruins.

43.9208, 5.1294

vgh, so much soul

Whats the French castle that is copied and inspires the design of most castles in fiction like Dark Souls and such?

>>5034619
Saint-Michel?

just entered the world of swiss castles

cute!

thicc towers

i love asymmetrical features, especially ones done for no obvious reasons like the feature on the right in that strange shape going all the way down the cliff, it doesn't seem necessary but someone did that anyways

>>5024974
Are those sloped concrete roofs?
And... uh... why don't all castles have that?
Wow that seems obvious now.

>>5038651
same place

>>5038046
There's a road that wraps around the castle on that side. There's a 1901 pic, the same orientation but ground level, and there are maybe six trees in view. Pretty good vantage point, and surely that's the reason why that wall has two sets of embrasures.
I was curious about it, the round thing on the floor is a broken sundial.

>>5039044
> the round thing on the floor is a broken sundial.
i guess thats why they had to extend that ledge far out like that, so the suns rays arent blocked by the castle, neat

glad this thread survived

Castle thread :)

>>5039328
Why were some threads erased/closed?

>>5040387
please don't say you haven't heard about 4chan being hacked?!?!

>>5040390
That in itself doesn't explain why some threads survived while others were closed or deleted.

>>5040717
Nothing I had saved was gone. You must have bad taste.

>>5040504
THIS is a beautiful castle. Source ?

>>5040762
reverse search, fag

>>5040717
This.

>>5040762
Castello di Fénis, Italy. I was not the rude anon responding

>>5040986
It's not rude to point out that someone is a lazy cunt.

>>5008309
Wow looks completely unreal

>>5040717
Only the worthy threads survived.

>>5040765
Shut up Mohammed

>>5040986
Grazie mille anon

>>5040987
I'm civilized, I ask my fellow man

>>5041206
A civilized man uses the tools at his disposal.

>>5041355
A civilized man doesn't post a pict that's been posted.
>>5016392

>>5041435
And a non-retard can tell the difference between two pictures of the same object taken at different times.

And a non-retard can tell the difference between a Castel thread and a Krack Des chevaliers thread

>Castel

>>5041673
Castrum>castellum>castel>castle
Sorry, I'm very very very old...

Donrobin Castle - Scotland

Kylemore Abbey - Ireland

>>5042687
>>5042686
Source please

>>5042729
The first one is in scotland and the ruin one was in ireland but I cant recollect their names, sorry.

>>5042729
>>5042748
Nevermind I'm an idiot the first one is also dunrobin castle near the glennmorangie distillery and the ruin was near galway.

>>5042199
And another kylemore.

>>5039328
>castle in michigan

Where is that at?

posting because I haven't sees that style of roof on a round tower before

cute

>>5043492
Michigan is a northern U.S. state.

Verrès Castle

this is the kind of shit that keeps me coming back to 4chan

>>5047247
Love /hr/, yah!

>>5042756
imagine the pondside sex.

Norman-Swabian Castle, Bari, Italy.

tiny castles on Islands, too good.
Kisimul Castlem Scotland

girthy tower

what a monstrosity, i love it

only surviving example of a medieval fortified port, at least thats what the wiki says

>>5050115
>>5049894
Fuck. Italy is so far above...

>>5031066
this is that one place in KCD

>>5051365
Which castle is that?

>>5051450
Castel Toblino, didnt even have a Wikipedia page, like half the castles in Italy have red links, surprising actually.

>>5051469
Brisighella Castle, same place, different angle, castle on one side, church on the other, valley and village in the middle, kind of neat

>>5051833
nvm, this is actually an abbey, the crenellations there fooled my thought it was a wall

>not even 1/4 of the down the Italy list, gonna take a look at other countries before finishing this list,

What's the difference between a caslte and a fort?

>>5052782
Castles typically are also designed to be a permanent living residence with many accommodations, forts being more practical and strictly military use.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/wp-content/uploads/migration/2019/12/27/TDYDDBIHDFGNJCLXLNJ27DH2IA.jpg

much better size and quality here

thoughts on restored castles? or should they be left the way they are? personally in favor, preservation of culture and all that

>>5053462

>>5053349
>cardiff-castle-daffodils
Thank you for the link, anon!
5616 x 3744...That's impressive!

>>5053463
Colorful. Exactly as they must have been in the Middle Ages.

>>5054197
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJd9OtmrTKA&t=222
yes, was just watching a video of a castle with its colored walls and ceilings intact, bright colors for natural light to bounce around

>>5054726
Saint John Outside the Walls Rome. It's not a castle, but it gives you an idea of what the buildings looked like.

>>5054736
It seems like if it was an older castle with military purposes first, and arrow slits for windows, it was mostly white, because of the small amounts of light, and then as windows got bigger they could go for a light blue background, and more color.

>>5056117
Which one is that?

>>5056124
Carrickfergus Castle, Wales

Blackness Castle, Sctoland

Castle of Bragança, Portugal

D'Buerg vun Aansebuerg

Dubovac Castle

Veliki Tabor Castle

Bled Castle, Slovenia

>>5058841
>>5058846
Croatia

Muiden Castle, Netherlands

Castillo de Belalcázar

Castillo de Almodóvar del Río

>>5059827
well look like someone, something something to compensate for

Gutenberg Castle, Lichtenstein

Vaduz Castle, Lichtenstein

Golubac Fortress, Serbia

Trenčín Castle, Slovakia

Będzin Castle, Poland

>>507437383
Malbork Castle, Poland

Bourtzi, Greece

Stavronikita Fortified Monastery, Greece

Dover Castle, England

>>5066279

Gyula Castle, Hungary

Rye Castle/Ypres Tower, England.

Ross Castle, Ireland

Narrow Water, Northern Ireland

Killyleagh Castle, Northern Ireland

>>5056200
Carrickfergus is also N.Ireland dont know how i got Wales.

Eilean Donan Castle, Scotland.

I see lots of Scottish and sometimes Irish castles on little islands, that seem kind of remote, I looked into it and they travelled a lot more on water by boat than on land. Makes sense of course with the very large islands around Scotland, but never heard much about this aspect of medieval Scottish life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birlinn

It's hard to travel by boat on land.

Doune Castle, Scotland.

So many of these tower keeps/houses, some with a entire courtyard, makes sense with all the clan wars over many centuries. A TV series about it might be interesting.

>>5068090
kek'd

>>5040064
>>5058847
Same castel

Alloa Tower, Scotland.

Château de Beynac, France

Château de Foix, France

France has a lot of well-preserved medieval castles, but they also had a lot of wars so I suppose they needed them a lot more.

>>5069546
where is that?

>>5069546
I have no idea

>>5069672
>>5069695
Bodiam in Sussex

Château de Hattonchâtel, France

>>5069695
And this one? :)

>>5070321
unfortunately, when I was saving this pictures I didn't took the time to name the files right. So in most of them I have no idea...

My OCD is going crazy.

>>5070363
Aw :-(

>>5070367
yeah, I'm more of an image guy
but lately I've been more careful on how I save things.

>>5070321
>>5070367
Click the triangle and image search. It's not hard.

>>5070369
I'm certainly not as stupid as you look.

"No relevant matches"

Château de Malbrouck, France

>>5070608
great, well preserved castle

This is actually 2 castles next to one another, there is even a 3rd in the same village. Curemonte, France.

Amazed by how many well-preserved castles in France have such few photos.

Château de Cherveux, France.

I love the unique roof style here.

Château de la Guyonnière, France

Eltz Castle, Germany

Continuously inhabited by the same Eltz family since the 12th century when it was first built.

>>5071483
Beautiful and useful example of what decorations inside the castles would have probably looked like.

Nürburg Castle, Germany

Château de Bridoire, France

Château de Roquetaillade, France

>>5072502
from the front

Château d'Excideuil, France

Castle of Mauleon, France

I love a good bridge and gatehouse.

Château de Montbrun, France

would post egeskov slot but i dont have any on me :(

Castello dell'Imperatore, Italy

Château de La Bâtie-Seyssel , France

Château de Vincennes, France

some time ago I learned about fortified mills, makes sense after all, food production is precious

Moulin d'Henry IV, France

These are some beautiful chateaux!

Château des Allymes, France

>>5075050
a few good photos of this castle but not good enough resolution

inside of a tower roof

>>5075050
Wild.

Château de Thoury, France

Château de Largentière, France

Château d'Anjony, France

Bentheim Castle, Germany

Château de Val, France

>>5076462
Nice

Château de Pesteils, France

Tour de Crest/Crest Tower, France

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>>5076683

Château de Suze-la-Rousse, France

>>5077032
its atop a rock surrounded by a dry moat, but photos of wider angles of it are all terrible resolution

Château d'Annecy, France

Château de Menthon-Saint-Bernard, France

>>5077272
neat

Château de la Sône, France

I think I had heard of castles having patterns on their rooftiles before somewhere, just remembered it was a thing.

>>5077566
How unique and medieval.

>>5077566
Seen it referenced as a "Burgundian" roof, or Polychrome roof, no immediately available reading sources on it though. Polychrome just refers to any decorative colors for architecture, you can have polychrome everything.

Castle of Montegiove, Italy

Fortress of Verrucole, Italy

europe and their chateaus

Château de Loches, France

>>5077778
Based.

Château de Sarzay, France

>>5074620
Agreed.

Château de Gisors, France

A decent condition Motte-and-Bailey considering its from the 11th century

Château d'Ainay-le-Vieil, France

You would think that a castle that survived all these centuries with its walls and towers still intact would have a million pictures, disappointingly low amounts of high resolution pictures of this castle.

>>5078538
It was at the "frontlines" of the Hundred Years War for some time. Amazing it survived so well.

>>5078540
Based

César Tower, France

A unique Donjon design, they are typically square with 4 round towers, this one also has an octagonal bit added on top.

one last interior picture from Castle Eltz

OP here. Thanks for an awesome thread. You all make this a better place.

Good Thread.