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 | Located both side of Gironde with an addendum on a small island in the middle of the river, these forts were built at the turn of XVIIe by Vauban. Purpose of these was the defense of Bordeaux from english attacks and to replace the old Blanquefort castle. |  | 12/30/2005 | 119 | 
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 | Old feudal chief town, Blanquefort was, around 1270, then again in 1455-1466, a key point for the defense of Bordeaux. From these two times, it preserves remarkably interesting fortifications: turn-residence surfortifiée by Édouard 1st, small citadel adapted to the gun by Antoine de Chabannes. At the turn of XVIe century it was outranked and replaced by the Blaye Fortress
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 | Rebuilt essentially with the hinge of XVe and XVIe centuries, the fortress of Bonaguil constitutes an excellent example of adaptation of architecture castrale to the large-scale use of weapons from archery to firearms. It is the anachronistic work of a nostalgic and megalomaniac baron, jealous of feudal prerogatives to the anguish.
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 | From Charles VIII to Louis XIV, many kings de France remained with the castle. In the vault, Louis XII marries Anne of Brittany in 1499. Henri IV there worked out, if not signed into 1598 the terms of the edict of Nantes. In its turns were held Chalais, favourite of the king Louis XIII, the cardinal of Retz, the duchess of Berry. The great time is that of the duke of Brittany, François II. The ... | | 12/30/2005 | 130 |
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 | The Royal Mint occupies a thirty-eight acre site in Llantrisant, ten miles from Cardiff.
As well as issuing coins for the United Kingdom, the Royal Mint produces coins for over 100 overseas countries. | | 12/30/2005 | 136 |
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 | Standing 10 km from Vézelay, Castle of Bazoches was built in XIIe century. Maréchal de Vauban owned it in 1675, and then a lot of new fitting out were done. The old castle turned to be an elegant and luxurious residence while a new military garrison was built near by.
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 | The general aspect points out the castle of XIIIe century, with a keep of approximately 24 m whose access is not possible that by a door placed high.But the side of "the attack", at North, does not present the usual profile points some that one exposed since 1200 to the attacker to deviate the projectiles. Quite to the contrary, Spesbourg proposes only one broad flat wall, a wall &quo... | | 12/29/2005 | 93 |
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 | Established on a site strengthened during the invasions Normans, the castle of Pirou rises on a mound in the medium of an artificial pond. Its high sandstone and schist walls go up in XIIe century. In the interior court, two home distinct remain, leaned with the ramparts: The old castle built under Henri IV and the new castle pennies Louis XIV in 1708. One may have heard of the "grey geese... | | 12/29/2005 | 108 |
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 | Loches constituted during all the Middle Age a strategic place of first order. Located at the borders of Poitou, Touraine and Berry, planted on a long rocky outcrop, it attracted initially the covetousness of the dukes of Aquitaine, of the counts of Blois-Chartres and those of Anjou. It was then the stake of a rough fight between Capétiens and Plantagenets. It was used a long time as residence ... | | 12/29/2005 | 99 |
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 | The castle of Sagonne was inhabited by the counts de Sancerre, Amboise, then by Gabrielle d' Estrées and Jules Hardouin-Mansart, the architect of the castle of Versailles. It is separated from a medieval village by an enclosure and ditches. The enormous keep shelters a vault and two rooms with painted decoration. Weapons and memories of those which remained with the castle of Sagonne are presented | | 12/29/2005 | 119 |
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 | With the origin stronghold of Aurélien, companion of Clovis, the castle of Blandy les Tours was rebuilt in XVIe century by François II of Orleans which made a residence of pleasure of it. The princess of Clèves was maried here in 1572 in the presence of the future Henri IV. After the restorations of the XVIIe century, the castle was dismantled and converted into farm. The powerful keep draws up... | | 12/29/2005 | 94 |
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 | the alexanderplatz is the famous place of east berlin. in the near reside the tv-tower and the red town hall. |  | 12/29/2005 | 300 |
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 | Built over a basaltic cone, the castle dominates the surroundings. Built in XIIIe century, the fortress belonged to the families of Murol and Estaing. It remains one of the most beautiful medieval ruins of Auvergne. The Companions of Gabriel revive the castle by refitting it, by refurnishing it and by animating it with characters in costumes.
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 | Rotunda - round building in Wroclaw, in Poland, housing monumental picture "The Panorama of the Battle of Raclawice" |  | 12/28/2005 | 94 |
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 | Built in 1300, this castle is a perfect example of lowland belgium castles | | 12/28/2005 | 148 |
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 | One of the most majestic building in UK. Construction started in 1119 and was continuously upgraded and modified until 1822 | | 12/28/2005 | 120 |
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 | In 1385, Edward Dalyngrigge, a future royal adviser and veteran of the wars with France, receipt the permission of the king to build a castle on its manor of Bodiam. The building which it built, although maintaining a ruin, is one of the castles most celebrated in England. It is visited each year by more than 170.000 people, and the images of its walls and turns, peacefully reflected in water o... | | 12/28/2005 | 96 |
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 | Perched with hillside on left bank of the Dordogne, Castelnaud dominates the small borough coiled with its feet. Its former owners, vassal of kings of England, opposed a long time to their neighbors, the lords de Beynac, faithful to kings de France. If the protagonists of these remote quarrels have all disappeared, the two fortresses always continue their immutable face to face, like a mineral ... | | 12/28/2005 | 93 |
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 | It is undoubtedly from the course of the Dordogne that the fortress appears most impressive. Standing on an inaccessible rock piton that it seems to prolong in the same vertical dash, it draws up its high silhouette above the small commune of Beynac-and-Cazenac and defies since centuries its rival planted on left bank of the river: the place of Castelnaud.
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 | Roquetaillade, in the heart of Aquitaine, is an architectural unit composed of two XIIe century castles and beginning of XIVe, both inside the same enclosure. The same family occupies it since 1306. Two significant restorations marked its history: that of the Rebirth which left monumental chimneys in particular and that of Viollet-le duc, at the XIXe century, which transformed the building into... | | 12/28/2005 | 122 |
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 | Villandraut constitutes with the close castle of Roquetaillade an example among purest to architecture castrale of the years 1300 in Guyenne: the influence of the castles built by Édouard III of England in Wales, itself marked of the originating seal philippien is manifest there. It has the immense advantage, compared to its neighbor, not to be restored. But, beyond its military carapace, the c... | | 12/28/2005 | 138 |
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 | Dominating the plain of Alsace to more than 700 meters of altitude, the fortress of Haut-Koenigsbourg counts with the number of the jewels bequeathed by the medieval builders. Very faithfully restored at the beginning of the XXe century, it preserves however the sober aspect of a large feudal castle.
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 | Located at the border of Penthièvre and the county of Dinan, this imposing castle pointed out the power of the Duke of Brittany and Tournemine, trusty servant of the Duchy. Destroyed in 1341, at the time of the war of succession of Brittany, of the first castle of XIIIe century, there remain only some vestiges. Rebuilt in XVe century, it holds account of the technical innovations as indicates i... | | 12/27/2005 | 82 |
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 | The imposing ruins of the castle of Tonquédec are drawn up in a beautiful decoration, on a headland dominating the valley of Bequeathing. The castle, high at the beginning of XIIIe century, was dismantled by order of Jean IV in 1395. Rebuilt at the beginning of XVe century, it is again dismantled by order of Richelieu in 1622.
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