The city held the final sand castle competition in August 2011, bringing an end to the annual event and tradition.

The castle was used as a prison until March 2011.

In 2011, he was part of a medieval epic, Ironclad, which also starred James Purefoy and Paul Giamatti, as the ineffectual Reginald de Cornhill, castellan of Rochester castle.

The castle of Caerphilly was used as a filming location for Merlin and the Doctor Who episodes The Rebel Flesh and The Almost People ( 2011 ).

( Torosay Castle is to open Easter until end of June 2011 ( subject to change due to sale of castle.

When they agreed to swap jobs in November 2011, with Putin retaking his old position of president which Medvedev had held for four years ( because Putin was constitutionally barred from having a third term in a row ), many in Russia called this " castling " (" рокировка "-" rokirovka ")-after the move in chess when the king and a castle swap sides.

The castle hosted the 2011 Collaborative European Research Conference.

It also featured prominently in the 2011 filming of the Snow White and the Huntsman film where a computer-generated castle was superimposed on the island in post-production.

Held by the Church of England for over 250 years, they were sold along with the castle in 2011 to philanthropist Jonathan Ruffer, who is currently exploring ways of developing them as a visitor attraction.

In 2011, the castle was closed to guided tours while refurbishments are carried out.

The castle re-opened in April 2011 after a refurbishment funded by a gift from an American millionaire.

The 20th Lord Dunsany died in May 2011 after a long illness and was buried in the grounds of Dunsany Castle after a private funeral in the ancestral castle ; a memorial service was held in Dunsany Parish Church a week later.

On the night of 10 March 2011 a fire broke out at the clock tower of the castle, causing the tower's roof and second floor collapse into the first floor.

Prior to the 2011 reopening the castle underwent an extensive cleaning carried out by Portsmouth City Council.

In 2011 the Heritage Lottery Fund made a grant of £ 194, 700 to pay for the castle to be restored so it could be opened to the general public.

The castle closed to visitors during October 2011, and ( as of August 2012 ) its scheduled opening date is 12th September 2012.

They were married on October 18, 2011 in a private castle in Ireland.

Sonnenstein castle ( December 2011 )

* The Castle, erected by the Visconti in 1335-1372. The castle of Voghera is quoted, in her historical reconstruction, by Carla Glori, ( in her book " Enigma Leonardo: decifrazioni e scoperte ", Cappello publisher 2011 ), because in 1489 it was given as a dowry to Bianca Giovanna Sforza, ( that she identifies as La Gioconda by Leonardo, portrayed in the Malaspina-Dal Verme castle, rising in the neighbouring Bobbio ), in consequence of the poisoning of Pietro del Verme by order of Ludovico il Moro ( 1485 ).

Anton Lehmden at his castle in 2011.

* In the 2011 film The Smurfs, Gargamel uses the castle as his headquarters in his plan to capture The Smurfs.

* An eight-year old girl died in May 2011 after falling head first from a bouncy castle onto a concrete pavement.