“I think it was the crystalline volumes and how they rise above the rolling landscape,” he says, referencing the castle’s corner towers. Known as one of the best-preserved Italian medieval ...

The castle’s dramatic, fairy-tale-like appearance with a distinctive turreted roof and rounded towers makes it look like ...

If you're seeking the best in terms of history and opulence ... King Ludwig II's boyhood home. The original medieval ruins of this golden-hued castle were purchased and rebuilt by Crown Prince ...

The castle is considered one of the best examples of medieval defensive and residential architecture in Central Europe.

Professor Richard Holmes, a British military historian featured in the NOVA film "Medieval Siege," talks here about everyday life in a medieval English castle, giving a sense of how lords and ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Medieval Builders: Strongholds & Castles Craft, hunt, and survive in fantasy medieval world. Build your village, manage and defend castles and whole ...

Back to top Building a medieval castle. videoBuilding a medieval castle Historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Tom Pinfold and Peter Ginn rediscover medieval castle-building techniques.

NARRATOR: Rooms in castles didn't have bare stone walls like the ruins we see today. They were covered with a layer of mortar, the medieval equivalent of plaster.Next, they were given a coat of ...