The world’s most beautiful astles Bamburgh Castle (Britain)
This stunner also overlooks the sea and accessible at low tide. Because the causeway connecting it to the mainland floods at high tide.
Chateau de Castelnaud (France)
This impressive fortress, located on the limestone rocks near the Dordogne River, overlooks a former enemy Chateau de Beynac.
Nowadays Chateau de Castelnaud is knows for its museum of Medieval Warfare,which includes renconstructions of giant crossbows and trebuchets, the huge slings used to hurl rocks at castle walls.
Leeds Castle (Britain)
Leeds Castle is more than 900 years old, this moated castle regularly hosted that much-married Tudor, Henry VIII. Its current success as one of England most popular tourist attraction is due to the work of the Blue-blooded olive Wilson Filmer, who outbid William Randolph Hearst to buy the castle for 837,000 dollars in 1926 (that is over 10 million dollars today ). Filmer used the rest of his fortune to restore and beautify the structure and its surroundings.
Chateau de Chillon (Switzerland)
As with most real estate ,it often location, location that makes all the
different with castles. It located on an island near the edge of Lake Geneva.
Neuschwanstein Castle (Germany)
Ludwig II, a.k.a.Mad King Ludwig, commissioned a set designer to create Neuschwastein Castle. Engineers broke ground in 1869, but the king Ludwig didn’t get much chance to enjoy his over-the-top place. In 1886, as the castle was nearing completion, he died under suspicious circumstances.
Despite this unhappy history ending, Neuschwanstein Castle remains
the quintessential fairy-tale castle: it was a major inspiration for Sleeping Beauty’s Castle at Disneyland.
Kronborg castle (Danmark)
Dating back to 1420s. Positioned next a strait separating the Danish
island of Sjalland from Sweden, it had strategic power over the sea triffic-- not enough, however to prevent the persistent Swedes from conquering it in 1658.
Eilenan donan (Britain）
Planted on an island in the middle of a loch, Scotland’s most famous
castle looks as if it’s been there forever. It dose date back to 1220, but the original structure was destroyed in 1719 and lay in ruins for two centuries. In 1919, Lieutenant Colonel John Macrae Gilstrap bought it and began restoration.
The castle was rebuild according to Farquar’s specification ,later, plans foud at Edinburgh Castle proved his vision correct. The “new” castle was finished in 1932.
Someday if i have enough money i must will visit these popular attraction!
