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 | Built in the XIVth century, Bannes castle proudly stand on a rocky spur situated on the municipality of Beaumont on Dordogne.
An arched bridge, in front of entrance chatelet and a drawbridge, give access to the door of the fortress. Five towers with machicolation covered of conical roofs of slate and detached houses of various sizes enclose a small inner courtyard. A round doveco... |  | 06/20/2008 | 204 | 
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 | XVth, XVIth and XVIIth centuries castle. Property of Antoine Chapelle, Henri IV's Master of Smith, the castle was reshaped after 1581, from a XIIth and XIVth Templar Knights fortress. The origin of this former fief is attested from 580 where it is told about "Diocesis Gemiliacensis". In the XIVth, the castle belonged to the chatellenie of Excideuil then,In 1656, it was raised to the ... |  | 06/20/2008 | 189 |
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 | Been attested from 1309 (quoted in 1384 under the name of "Heremus"), the jurisdiction of Herm is held by several co-Lords of whom Hugues de l'Herm, till the end of the XVth. It becomes then property of the Calvimont family.
The current castle is built between 1480 and 1512 by Jean III de Calvimont, member of the parliament of Bordeaux.
The history of t... |  | 06/20/2008 | 140 |
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 | Fleurac Castle, located in the heart ot the Perigord (close to Les Eyzies prehistoric site) is famous for its architecture.
This Castle is a fine example of 19th century neo-gothic style, it was reconstructed in the late 19th century and the
interior is still decorated with same era furniture.
The castle is situated in a beautiful park covering 20 hectares ... | | 06/19/2008 | 222 |
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 | XIIth, XIVth, XVIth and XVIIth castle. Built on a succession of rocky terraces, this former fortified town possesses a triple enclosure which conjugates the rigour of warfare techniques with the elegance of the Renaissance era.
To enter, we pass the first chatelet of the XVIIth, formerly preceded by a drawbridge, which leads to the first enclosure
flanked with circular tow... | | 06/19/2008 | 137 |
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 | The construction of the castle of Fayrac, encircled with a double enclosure, began in XIIIth century.
It was an English forward position in the Hundred Years War, built to watch over Beynac, on the opposite bank, where the French were holed up.
There are two lodging houses: one of the end of the XVIth century, other one of the Renaissance with all slated pepper-p... | | 06/19/2008 | 169 |
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 | Commarque is a XIIth, XIVth, and XVth centuries castle. Built on the troglodytic remains of a fort dating probably IXth or Xth, the fortress of the XIIth was protected by two ditches and a double enclosure. We reached it by two successive drawbridges beaten by chatelets.
The first enclosure contained lodging houses for soldiers, magazines and outbuildings. The second protects the... | | 06/19/2008 | 113 |
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 | The first castle of Campagne of medieval style dates of XIIth and XIIIth centuries. It has been highly modified during the XVIth with the setting up of a Renaissance looking.
It is located on the municipality of Campagne near the valley of Vézère. A carved square tower adjoins the old main building, prolonged by a modified L shaped main building. The big windows and the roofs date of t... | | 06/19/2008 | 86 |
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 | This XIIIth and XVth centuries edifice dominating Dronne river is in fact two castles which are implanted in a carved surrounding wall marrying the curves of the rock:
the medieval castle of the counts of Perigord and, very close, the Renaissance castle which replaced the castle of the Barony today disappeared.
The first one possesses all the characteristics of its era: thick wa... | | 06/18/2008 | 167 |
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 | This castle, built in the XIIIth century, by the Barriere family is a ancient noble den been attested in 1312. It played a major role during the One hundred years war.
It became property of the Lur family in 1448. During the Religious wars, Jeanne de Lur, become a Huguenot, transformed the chapel into a temple which would have received the visit of Calvin. The castle was besieged a bit... | | 06/18/2008 | 134 |
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 | Standing on the commune of Silhac, the castle of Hautvillard would have been built at the end of the XIIth century, in a wooded hill, widely opened southward.
This building has the rare merit to have reached us intact. It was a part of a defensive trio with the castle of Tourette and that of Vausèche.
Two towers flank the south facade which looks towards Saint-Michel-de-C... | | 06/01/2008 | 402 |
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 | To me this looks like a giant pizza, yummy | | 05/27/2008 | 175 |
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 | House 340, Street 32, F-11/2, Islamabad | | 04/30/2008 | 887 |
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 | Fancy staying in a 13th century castle? How about an 18th century manor?
The Landmark Trust is a British building preservation charity. They buy and restore old buildings, and then rent them out for a week/weekend to people for holidays. These buildings can be far out into the country or even in the middle of London. Most of the properties are in the UK, but there are some in both It... | | 04/13/2008 | 280 |
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 | The castles of Ottrott were built on the plateau of Elsberg about 500 metres in height. Two ruins, separated hardly from about fifty metres, raise themselves nowadays in this place: the "Rathsamhausen" on the West of the site and the "Lutzelbourg" in the East.
Recent searches allowed to unearth the bases of a primitive castle situated between the current ruins of both castles. Th... | | 04/13/2008 | 190 |
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 | The Sasayama Castle at its town center was built in 1609 by the order of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first Tokugawa shogun. The Sasayama town was between the then capital Kyoto and Western Japan, and Ieyasu wanted to build a castle there quickly because of the location and his war strategy. The major construction works were mostly completed within the year.
Sasayama, while being influenced str... |  | 04/11/2008 | 621 |
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 | Located 400 meters in height on the northwest hillside of Reisberg, the Wasenbourg castle is one of the most beautiful and romantic ruins of North Vosges.
Although its origins are fairly obscure, the historians attribute generally its construction, by 1273, to Conrad III de Lichtenberg then bishop of the city of Strasbourg.
The castle is quoted first time in a cha... | | 04/08/2008 | 188 |
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 | Further to the conflagration which partially destroyed in 1779 the first stronghold dating of the XIIth century, the Cardinal de Rohan decides on the construction of a new palace in 1780, and appealed to the architect Salins de Montfort which steers the works until 1790.
Although the main part of works as well as the roof are finished, bas-reliefs and inside arrangement remain ... | | 04/08/2008 | 122 |
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 | Kientzheim (Conesheim) is quoted as of 785.
Various seigniories shared it during the Middle Age, most of the time it depended on the seigniory of Hohlandsberg which belonged to the Habsbourg.
The village was pawned to the Count of Lupfen in the 15th century. This one established himself there, had the castle built, surrounded the village with ramparts towards 1430 and conferred to... | | 04/06/2008 | 258 |
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 | The castle was built for Albin Woelflin, imperial bailiff for Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, around 1220. The site was acquired in 1227 by the lords of Horbourg and Ribeaupierre. It had an important strategic role as it allowed the Empire to close off one of the routes across the Vosges Mountains towards Lorraine. The circular keep is the oldest part of the castle and one of the first of thi... | | 04/05/2008 | 213 |
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 | Ramstein Castle (chateau du Ramstein also known as "Le Ramstein") is a ruined castle in the commune of Scherwiller, in the Bas-Rhin département of France. Its name is probably derived from the German Ram (crow) and Stein (stone) and signifies 'rock of the crow'.
Ramstein Castle is built on the same crest as the Ortenbourg Castle. Standing at an altitude of 384 m, it is ... | | 04/05/2008 | 155 |
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 | The Futuro Home was a small, easily portable building designed to be more like a ski cabin or summer cottage than a true home. Matti Suuronen, a Finnish architect, created the design in 1968. The design was made to be fun (looking like a flying saucer) and practical. (low wind profile) | | 04/05/2008 | 143 |
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 | Ortenbourg Castle lies west of the village of Scherwiller in the Bas-Rhin province in France. This area is also known as the Northern Alsace or the Middle Vosges.
The silhouette of Ortenbourg Castle rises up at the entrance of the Liepvre valley, at the end of a granite peak of the Rittersberg mountain (443 meters high). The well known Haut-Koenigsbourg Castle can easily be seen... | | 04/05/2008 | 128 |
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 | Odratzheim Manor (also known as Chateau-Geraudon) was built by Joseph Massol in 1765 for Augustin Pierre Geraudon, the royal war superintendant.
It was probably built on the remains of an older castle.
The right side chariot gate originate from the old mill as far as the 1624 keystone is decorated with a mill paddle wheel. The left side chariot gate is from 1560 and prob... | | 04/05/2008 | 130 |
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 | Haut-Barr (German:Hohbarr) Castle is a medieval castle, first built in 1100, above the city of Saverne in the French département of Bas-Rhin. It was built on sandstone rock 460m above the valley of Zorn and the plain of Alsace. Because of this, it has been called the eye of Alsace.
On several occasions it was expanded by the bishops of Strasbourg.
The Peace of West... | | 04/05/2008 | 167 |
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