It was a bold, dark castle of pine boughs that stood like a medieval fortress, eclipsing the sun and human time.

Just outside of the city walls stood a small castle.

At the junction between the inner and outer baileys, on the north side of the castle stood a tall five-sided keep, the eastern parts of which has been pulled down.

The ruling class among the mediaeval townsfolk were rich merchant families whose houses stood right near the castle tower and were surrounded by the first town wall once it was built.

The historic city formed an oval, surrounded by a strong wall, high, dating from the 12th century CE, and was flanked with towers, while on a rock, stood a castle.

A letter to the editor of the Morning Chronicle of 2 January 1819 states that " On the 19th of November, as the servants belonging to the West Mains of Dunsinane-house, were employed in carrying away stones from the excavation made among the ruins that point out the site of Macbeth's castle here, part of the ground they stood on suddenly gave way, and sunk down about six feet, discovering a regularly built vault, about six feet long and four wide.

Until the last century the city was distinguished into three different groups: the walled city where the castle stood, and that was identified with the ancient acropolis greek-Roman urban center, the Village or the Upper Town on the hill slope and the New Town, plain.

Nevertheless the city castle stood firm again, a testament to Corfiot-Venetian steadfastness as well as the Venetian castle-building engineering skills.

The church stood apart from it and on a small hill stood the castle.

When Elizabeth arrived, time stood literally still, as the great tower clock of the castle was stopped for the time of her visit.

A motte and bailey castle stood on the banks of the river as it passed through Aberavon during the medieval period.

From this point a beacon-fire would raise the alarm as far as Tallaght, where an important castle stood.

Today there is a neo-Romanesque Abbey where the castle once stood.

Stolze accordingly started the theory that the royal castle of Persepolis stood close by Nakshi Rustam, and has sunk in course of time to shapeless heaps of earth, under which the remains may be concealed.

The name of the town is thought to derive from a castle ( demolished in the 19th century ) built by Felix Magennis in the late 16th century which stood at the mouth of the Shimna River.

Although it is mentioned by the name of Newcastle as early as 1433, so it is likely that another castle had previously stood there.

The medieval hall stood south-west of the keep and was dismantled in 1796 during the remodelling of the castle.

Most of it dates from the 18th century, though a castle has stood on the site since the days of King John, the first Lord of Ireland.

Little remains of the castle structures that once stood here, save its stone ramparts and the base of a keep.

Behind the church on a slight hill a few kilometers distant stood the castle of the Count who owned all the land for miles around.

A Norman castle originally stood on the high ground in this spot.

# The castle from which arrows were shot at those who would enter the Wicket Gate is the stand-alone tower, the remnant of an abbey that stood beside the church.

And below me, as I stood on that hill-top transfixed, lay the twin craters, whose black walls stood up gauntly above the encroaching sand like the battlements and bastions of some great castle.

File: IJsselstein. toren. jpg. JPG | Tower of the former castle.

even when the fences became a part of the game -- when a vine-embowered gate-post was the Sleeping Beauty's enchanted castle, or when Rapunzel let down her golden hair from beneath the crocketed spire, even then we paid little heed to those who went by on the path outside.

The necromantic change from the palace at Sparta to Faust's Gothic castle directs us to the aesthetic meaning of the myth -- the translation of antique drama into Shakespearean and romantic guise.

The castle of Abensberg was destroyed during the Thirty Years ' War, although the city had bought a guarantee of protection from the Swesidh general, Carl Gustaf Wrangel.

Agnes Maria of Andechs-Merania ( died 1201 ), queen of France, was the daughter of Bertold IV ( died 1204 ), who was Count of Andechs, a castle and territory near Ammersee, Bavaria and from 1183 duke of Merania ( Istria ).

* 1482 – The town and castle of Berwick upon Tweed is captured from Scotland by an English army

The most easterly contains the ruins of the old castle, whilst the remains of the ancient Anatho extend from this island for about 2 miles down the left bank.

* 1942 – French prisoner of war General Henri Giraud escapes from his castle prison in Festung Königstein.

At his return from Ethiopia, he married Virginie Vincent de Saint Bonnet in 1848, and settled in Hendaye where he purchased 250ha to build his castle, and became the mayor of the city from 1871 to 1875.

The Aberdour obelisk was built by Lord Morton on his departure from the village to relocate to a large home in Edinburgh, it was built so he could see his former hometown from his new house when he looked through binoculars-it stands in a cowfield between the castle and the beach.

Part of Abergavenny and Skirrid Fach ( Little Skirrid ) seen from the castle ruins

The first Baron was Hamelin de Balun, from Ballon, a small town and castle in Maine-Anjou called " Gateway to Maine ", near Le Mans, today in the Sarthe département of France.

Founded by the Hassan-i Sabbah, the Assassins were active in the fortress of Alamut in Iran from the 8th to the 14th centuries, and also controlled the castle of Masyaf in Syria.

He then grabs the book from the cradle, and rushes back to the castle, while the dead rise from graves all around.

The son of John Smith, designer of the earlier castle, William Smith was City Architect of Aberdeen from 1852.

Craigowan Lodge is a seven-bedroom stone house about a mile from the main castle in Balmoral.

The castle theory fell from favour among Scottish archaeologists in the 1980s, due to a lack of supporting archaeological evidence.

Columbanus accordingly obtained from King Gontram the Gallo-Roman castle named " Luxovium " ( Luxeuil ), some eight miles distant from Annegray.

Laura begins her tale by relating her childhood in a " picturesque and solitary " castle in the midst of an extensive forest in Styria where she lives with her father, a wealthy English widower, retired from the Austrian Service.

12 years later, Laura and her father are admiring the sunset in front of the castle when her father tells her of a letter he received earlier from his friend General Spielsdorf.

For the general reader the Treasure is appealing because she gives fascinating glimpses into women's lives in 1400, from the great lady in the castle down to the merchant's wife, the servant, and the peasant.

The Turkish name Çanakkale Boğazı is derived from the major city adjoining the strait, Çanakkale ( which takes its name from its famous castles ; kale means " castle ").