From medieval castles on the top of a mountain in Lisbon to Prussian palaces in Berlin and the epic castle that inspired Walt Disney’s Disneyland, much of Europe’s best castles are hidden gems.

NARRATOR: Rooms in castles didn't have bare stone walls like the ruins we see today. They were covered with a layer of mortar, the medieval equivalent of plaster.Next, they were given a coat of ...

Professor Richard Holmes, a British military historian featured in the NOVA film "Medieval Siege," talks here about everyday life in a medieval English castle, giving a sense of how lords and ...

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Archaeologists and academics flock to the castle to see their theories tried out and put into practice. Above all, building a medieval castle requires the skill and co-operation of a workforce ...

Plans for further conservation work on a medieval clock tower in the south ... the existing capping to the belfry in the Castle Rushen clock tower in Castletown would be replaced with a lead ...

Enter the castle via an arched door. Step inside Ballintotis Castle, a two-bedroom, private detached medieval castle located in Ballintotis, Castlemartyr, Co. Cork. Located just two miles west of ...