Castles of Europe
21 European castles — each mapped, dated and ready to explore.
Castle of Diósgyőr
Hungary's four-towered Gothic queens' castle, rebuilt by Louis the Great
Rock of Cashel
Ireland's medieval hilltop of kings, with a round tower, chapel and cathedral
Óbidos Castle & Walls
Portugal's fairytale walled hill town crowned by a medieval castle
Kalmar Castle
Sweden's Renaissance castle with round corner towers, guarding the Baltic coast
Gravensteen
Belgium's moated 'Castle of the Counts' in the heart of Ghent
St Andrews Castle
Coastal bishops' castle with a notorious bottle dungeon and siege mine
Urquhart Castle
Ruined lochside stronghold on the banks of Loch Ness
Blair Castle
White-walled Highland castle, home of the only legal private army in Europe
Bothwell Castle
Scotland's largest 13th-century stone castle, in red sandstone above the Clyde
Caerlaverock Castle
Britain's only triangular castle, a famous siege target in 1300
Dunvegan Castle
Skye's Clan MacLeod seat, the oldest continuously inhabited castle in Scotland
Malbork Castle
The world's largest brick castle, built by the Teutonic Knights in Poland
Conwy Castle
13th-century Welsh river fortress with eight towers, built in just four years
Dunrobin Castle
Fairytale French-château castle of the Dukes of Sutherland, by the sea
Muiderslot
The Netherlands' classic moated brick castle near Amsterdam
Glamis Castle
Turreted fairytale castle, childhood home of the Queen Mother and the setting of Macbeth
Craigmillar Castle
Well-preserved tower castle near Edinburgh tied to Mary, Queen of Scots
Cawdor Castle
Turreted Highland castle linked by legend to Shakespeare's Macbeth
Doune Castle
Well-preserved medieval castle famous from Monty Python, Outlander and Game of Thrones
Corvin Castle
Transylvania's grand Gothic castle, reached by a long bridge on stone pillars
Inveraray Castle
Gothic Revival fairytale seat of the Dukes of Argyll, featured in Downton Abbey