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CASTLES & MANORS
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Travel Europe stories of castles, historic houses, villas, manors,
burgs, schlosses and chateau, some to stay in or just sight-seeing.
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Castle
Hotels Europe
ENGLAND
MUNCASTER
CASTLE & COACHMAN'S QUARTERS
Haunted Castle B&B in Cumbria.
ETTINGTON
PARK HOTEL
Historic Manor House in Warwickshire
Magnificent historic hotel in Warwickshire,
close to Stratford, Blenheim Palace, the Cotswolds.
LANGLEY
CASTLE
Northumberland Castle Hotel & Restaurant
14th Century castle keep built during the reign of Edward III.
LUMLEY
CASTLE
Romantic Castle Hotel in Durham County
14th Century/Elizabethan Castle Hotel in Northeast England with at least one
ghost.
RIPLEY
CASTLE AND BOARS HEAD INN
Preserved Private Castle and Inn Hotel in Yorkshire Dales.
KNARESBOROUGH CASTLE
RUINS
Plantagenet Kings and Queens hunting castle near Harrogate.
FROM
TRAITOR'S GATE TO MORTIMER'S HOLE
Follow the
trail of the English traitor Roger Mortimer from the Tower of London
to Windsor.
BLENHEIM PALACE
Walk a mile in Winston Churchill’s slippers
Grand Baroque palace built for the 1st Duke of Marlborough a British
Heritage site in Oxfordshire, birthplace of Sir Winston.
WARWICK CASTLE
Medieval Ghosts and Love Birds
One of best preserved Medieval Castles in England with lots of activities
for families and history buffs alike.
TOWER OF LONDON
Mind Your Head and the Family Jewels
London's castle palace opens new execution exhibit.
KENILWORTH
CASTLE
England’s largest of castle ruins
The Leichester Gatehouse and Elizabethan Gardens reopen.
WINDSOR CASTLE
Stop by the Queen’s House for Tea
The oldest largest occupied royal castle.
HOGHTON TOWER
Tudor Manor House Castle near Lancaster
Where King James I knighted a side of beef "Sirloin" a
very
haunted
castle.
CASTLE
HOWARD
Yorkshire Grand Palace and Gardens
One of the grandest family home palaces
in North England.
DALEMAIN
HOUSE AND GARDENS LAKELAND FELLS
Georgian Manor and 14th Century Dacre Castle Keep
DURHAM
CASTLE STAYS AND SIGHTS
Views and Stays in the Prince Bishops' University Town
ITALY
CASTLES
AND TRUFFLES
Castle Hotels in Piedmont Italy
Castles you can stay in for local wines,
herbs and famous truffles of Piemonte region
around Torino (Turin).
SEASIDE
SILENCIO
Historic Villa Hotel on Italy's Northern Liguria Coast
The Grand Hotel Villa Balbi a seaside getaway since the 17th Century in Sestri
Levante.
CASTLE
BESENO: THE CASTLES OF TRENTINO
Italy's upper Adige Valley around Trento is offers a wealth
of wine vineyards and Castles clinging below the magnificent Dolamite mountain
cliffs.
STONE AND ART: RENAISSANCE
Castello del Buonconsiglio
Castle Buonconsiglio has been
adopted as Trentino's art museum with Renaissance and early Italian art
CASTELLO
di AVIO
First of the Adige Valley Castles
Curtain wall castle among the grape vineyards between Verona and Trento
MURDER
AND A MEAL IN THE MOUNTAIN MISTS
Romantic Castle Toblino
Four star restaurant in a medieval castle
of dark romance legends on a fog mist mountain lake in
Northern Italy
CASTELLO
D'ARCO
Bishop takes Rook at Northern Italy Medieval Castle
Art frescoes of Medieval ches games and stone walls high above the
crossroads town of Arco between Trento and Lake Garda
CASTELLO DI BRESCIA
Art and Armor
The castle of Brescia has been watching over Lombardy since Roman times.
SABBIONETA LOMBARDY
Walled City and Duke's Palazzo
Small sleepy Renaissance town of a Northern Italian Duke.
DUCAL
PALACE OF COLORNO
Baroque Residence and Gardens Near Parma
Historic Home to a Beheaded Countess and an French Empress
GERMANY
THE
RESIDENCE - MUNICH
Roman Emperors and Crown Jewels
The Munich old city center Bavarian Royal Palace
HEADLESS
KNIGHT, SLEEPY NIGHT
Burg Reichenstein Hotel - the Castle next door
Hotel in Robber Baron's Rhine Castle with charm and history
CASTLE
RHEINSTEIN
KNIGHT WATCH ON THE RHINE
Medieval
castle on the Rhine with armor display and connection to the Holy Roman
Empire.
RHINE
CASTLES EHRENFELS AND SOONECK
THE MICE WHO ATE THE BISHOP
Stops on the castle laden lower middle Rhine where legends of remain
quite colorful.
CASTLE
MARKSBURG
The original Rhine Knight’s Castle
The only castle along to Rhine to never
be destroyed for 700 years served as a prison and residence for the rulers
of Hesse.
EUROPEAN
CASTLES INSTITUTE
Philippsburg Castle
Renaissance period castle home of the
Landgrave of Hesse now housing a library for researching castles across Europe.
COCHEM’S
REICHSBURG IMPERIAL CASTLE
At the heart of the Moselle River Valley Wine Region, the castle
at Cochem
is one of Germany's most visually striking.
MOSELLE
CASTLE THURANT
Castle above the vineyards with the curious history of the Two Towers.
BIG
GUNS AND FAT UNIFORMS
Bavarian Army Museum Ingolstadt
For German military history through the ages this museum
is located in Ingolstadt's "New" castle.
CASTLE
RUIN FRANKENSTEIN
Grab Your Pitchfork - Monsters And The Women Who Create Them
Ingolstadt was the literary birthplace of Frankenstein's
monster, but the ruins this castle can be found near Kaiserslautern.
DARMSTADT
FRANKENSTEIN CASTLE RUINS
Castle Frankenstein Ruins near Frankfurt
A
GERMAN KING'S FANTASY CASTLE
Schloss Neuschwanstein in Bavaria
Most famous German castle of "Mad" King Ludwig was a fantasic recreation
near Munich.
HOHENZOLLERN
CASTLE
Castle in the Clouds
Swabia mountain castle of Europe's grand dynasty.
SIGMARINGEN CASTLE
Hohenzollern Palace on the Danube
One of the largest princely palaces still privately owned in Germany, with art
and armor collections by tour.
ART
AND AUGUSTINER
Castle Art Museum in the Bavarian Alps
An art museum in a Bavarian Castle and a bar/restaurant which is
an art work itself when visiting the Oberbayern region.
MAD
KING LUDVIG'S PLEASURE PALACE - LINDERHOF
Schloss Linderhof
the first of Ludvig II's magnificent palaces in Bavaria.
BURG
RÖTTELN
Black Forest Castle in Baden-Wurttemburg
Beautiful castle ruins in south-west Germany.
BURG HORNBERG CASTLE HOTEL
German Knight's Castle on the Neckar River
GERMANY’S
CASTLE ROAD - BURGENSTRASSE
Scenery and History across Rivers of Time
CASTLE
GUTTENBERG
Staufer Castle of Falcons and Knights on the Neckar
KNIGHTS
TOURNAMENT AT KALTERNBERG CASTLE
World's Largest Medieval Show and Fair in Bavaria
CASTLE
HOTEL KÖNIGS WUSTERHAUSEN BRANDENBURG
Former Cavalry Barracks at the castle of Prussia's "Soldier
King" near
Berlin’s
Schoenfeld
Airport
SCHLOSS
LUDWIGSECK - SMALL CASTLE B&B HESSE
Private Baronial Historic Knights Hunting Lodge
SCHLOSS
EGGERSBERG CASTLE HOTEL BAVARIA ALTMUHLTAL
Romantic Renaissance Castle Hotel in Frankish Bavaria
WARTBURG
CASTLE - EISENACH
Where Martin Luther hid to Translate his German Bible
SCHLOSS
BENRATH PALACE AND GARDENS DUSSELDORF
Palatine Prince's Baroque Summer Palace
NYMPHENBURG
PALACE AND GARDENS - MUNICH
Porcelain and Scandals of the Bavarian Kings
SCHLOSS
LUDWIGSBURG
One of Germany's best palaces - north of Stuttgart
FRANCE
A
TASTE OF WINE AND THE DUKES OF BURGUNDY
The wine
road through France's Burgundy Cote d'Or from Dijon to Beaune stops first at
the caves of The Chateau d'Marsannay.
CHATEAU
HAUT-KOENIGSBOURG
King’s Fairy Tale Castle in Alsace Wine Region
This
12th Century castle is one of the Alsace region's most popular
area tourist sights.
THE
SACRED AND THE PROFANE
Château de Bussy-Rabutin
Romantic Burgundy region 16-17th Century
Chateau of Louis XIV exiled author
of
tell-all court love expose Count de Bussy.
CHÂTEAU
DE CHÂTEAUNEUF-EN-AUXOIS
Romance Castles of Burgundy Wine Region
12th-15th Century Chateau near Beaune
in the Cote d'Or in qaunt village of Bourgogne.
CHÂTEAU
DE CORMATIN
Grand Manor Spoils of Nobility
17th Century Chateau in Southern Burgundy Wine Region
BRANCION
CASTLE
Medieval Chateau in South Burgundy
On of few Crusades era castle ruins remaining
in
Burgundy.
CHÂTEAU
DE FLEURVILLE
Hotel and Restaurant along Burgundy Wine Road
Former Count's farmhouse now elegant base for wine touring
ROUTE DES CHATEAUX
Castles
and Manors of Southern Burgundy
CHATEAU
LA MOTTE-TILLY - NOGENT-SUR-SEINE
Chateau of "Dangerous Liasons" in Champagne
FONTAINEBLEAU
CHATEAU
France’s Great Royal Palace Ile de France near Paris
FORTRESS
MORNAS PROVENCE
Rhone Valley Medieval Castle Ruin and
Holiday Stays
CHATEAU DES BAUX PROVENCE
Castle Ruins and Medieval Siege Machines
CHATEAU
OF SAINT-FARGEAU
100 Years War History Castle in West Burgundy
Summer Historic Spectacle Show and Joan of Arc
BELGIUM
GODEFROID
OF BOUILLON CASTLE ON THE SEMOIS
Hero of First Crusade left his Belgian fortress behind.
CHATEAU
LA ROCHE EN ARDENNE - CASTLE
GHOST
The
Legend of Berthe of La Roche
WALES
HARLECH
CASTLE - NORTH WALES
Edward I’s Toughest "Ring of Iron" Fortress
CZECH REPUBLIC
SAVE
ON A HONEYMOON IN ROMANTIC PRAGUE
Conquer love and indulge your inner White Knight
Prove your medieval wooing skills in Prague's castle city.
PRAGUE
CASTLE AND ST. VITUS CATHEDRAL
Largest
Castle in Europe - Bohemian Kings and Emperors
Romanesque Chapel, Gothic St. Vitus Cathedral and the Tomb of St. Wenceslas.
CROATIA
ZRINSKI
CASTLE - MUSEUM MEDIMURJE CAKOVEC
Castle
and Museum of the Croatian Zrinski Dynasty
TRAKOSCAN
CASTLE - ZAGORJE
Croatia’s Best Preserved Romantic Revival Castle
MONACO
FORBIDDEN
MONTE-CARLO
Monaco Grimaldi Palace Secrets
Glimpse the secret palace lifestyle
of Europe's jetset royal family
SWITZERLAND
CHATEAU
D’AIGLE CASTLE WINE MUSEUM
15th Century Savoy Castle and Wine Museum in the Vaud
CHATEAU
DE CHILLON
Medieval Gem on Lake Geneva made famous by
Lord Byron
LORD
BYRON & VILLA DIODATI
Literature's Gothic Summer of 1816 on Lake Geneva
CHÂTEAU
DE COPPET LAKE GENEVA
Home of the literary nemesis of Emperor Napoleon
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