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Lying on the northwesternmost point of the islet of Old San Juan, Castillo San Felipe del Morro is named in honor of King Philip II of Spain.The fortification, also referred to as el Morro or 'the promontory,' was designed to guard the entrance to the San Juan Bay, and defend the Spanish colonial port city of San Juan from seaborne enemies.
Doubting Castle, from The Pilgrim's Progress; G. Gormenghast from the Gormenghast series of novels; H. Hagedorn Castle, the titular castle from The Last Castle by Jack Vance; Hogwarts Castle, from the Harry Potter series; Howl's Moving Castle, from Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones; K. Kiamo Ko, from The Wicked Years; O. The titular ...
Neuschwanstein Castle (German: Schloss Neuschwanstein, pronounced [ˈʃlɔs nɔʏˈʃvaːnʃtaɪn]; Southern Bavarian: Schloss Neischwanstoa) is a 19th-century historicist palace on a rugged hill of the foothills of the Alps in the very south of Germany.
The Sigiriya site contains the ruins of an upper palace located on the flat top of the rock, a mid-level terrace that includes the Lion Gate and the mirror wall with its frescoes, the lower palaces clings to the slopes below the rocks. The moats, walls and gardens of the palace extended for a few hundred metres from the base of the rock.
Castle Grayskull was conceived as the central location for the battle between the forces of good and evil. [7] The original playset was released in 1982, and all other depictions of the castle originate from it. It is a large hollow green castle, consisting of two halves connected by a hinge. The toy is designed to open for play and close for ...
Steinvikholm Castle: Stjørdal Municipality: Castle and fortress and partly ruin Sverresborg: City of Bergen: Build in to a fortress Sverresborg: City of Trondheim: Ruin Tunsberghus: City of Tønsberg: Ruin Trondheim Archbishop's Palace: City of Trondheim: Palace Valdisholmborg Indre Østfold Municipality: Ruin Valkaberg Oslo: Vardøhus: Town ...
Depicted as Koka's castle, it is the first shown fortress in the manga Berserk. The Alcázar was used as the setting for Brobdingnag, the land of the giants, in The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960). [18] [19] The castle also served as the French home of Sir Lancelot du Lac, Joyous Gard, in the 1967 musical film Camelot.
Herod the Great built a palace within the fortress of Herodium. Herod himself commissioned a lavish palace to be built between 23 and 15 BCE atop Herodium for all to see. The palace itself consisted of four towers of seven stories, a bathhouse, courtyards, a Roman theatre, banquet rooms, a large walkway ("the course"), as well as extravagant ...