This means that the only readily accessible route to the castle lies to the east, where the ridge slopes more gently.

Within the city limits lies the castle of the Counts of Almelo.

About four kilometres ( or 2½ miles ) south-east of Ommen and adjacent to the hamlet of Eerde lies the castle Eerde, a castle in the Dutch-classical style from 1715, surrounded by a 1, 667 hectare estate in the Baroque style managed by the Natuurmonumenten foundation since 1965.

The castle lies between the towns of Hartha and Grimma on a hill spur over the Zwickauer Mulde and had the first wildlife park in Germany.

The village lies to the east of Ghent, near a former course of the River Scheldt and is notable for its castle.

The village lies in the gap below the castle, and is some eight kilometres ( five miles ) south-east of Wareham, and the same distance west of Swanage.

It therefore includes sections of both the low lying sandy heathland that lies to the north of the castle, and the rugged Jurassic Coast upland to the south.

Close to IJzevoorde lies the castle of " Slangenburg ", referring to a little river called the Slinge.

It lies east of Galway city, and one of the attractions of the town is its medieval castle.

Here it receives the waters of the Schwarza, in whose valley lies the ruined castle of Schwarzburg, the ancestral seat of the formerly ruling House of Schwarzburg.

His attendants tell him differing stories regarding the happenings in the castle until an old man recounts his father's words: within the castle lies a beautiful princess who is doomed to sleep for a hundred years, whereupon a king's son is to come and awaken her.

He passes the sleeping castle folk and comes across the chamber where the princess lies asleep on the bed.

Image: PS Waverley off Brodick castle 1989. jpg | The Paddle Steamer Waverley lies in Brodick Bay in front of Brodick Castle.

On the rock, to the north-west of the city center, lies Cheb castle, built in the 12th century, and now mostly in ruins.

It lies between the cities of Kakogawa 加古川 to the east and Himeji 姫路 to the west, which is known for its castle.

* Castle Howe, Kendal ’ s undisputed first castle, lies on the hill side overlooking the town.

To the north of the castle lies the Jebel Ansariyah, and to the south Lebanon.

Earl Shilton's castle was built around the site of an existing twelfth century chapel called Saint Peters that lies between Church Street and Almey ’ s Lane.

Dalkeith Palace which replaced the castle in the late 16th century and was rebuilt in the early 18th century, lies at the north-east edge of the town.

Devizes lies almost 2 ° west of the Greenwich Meridian, with the two-degree line running through the western edge of the town, just a few hundred yards west of the castle.

Part of a stone footed timber gatehouse lies beneath the present stone gate at the west side of the castle.

The castle lies on the Slovak side of the border, but it's easily accessible from the Hungarian village of Somoskő.

The castle was originally built next to the sea, but geological processes have changed the shape of the coastline, and the castle now lies on a cliff face, about half a mile ( 800 m ) inland.

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.

At the same time, however, I availed myself of the services of that great English actor and master of make-up, Sir Gauntley Pratt, to do a `` quickie '' called The Mystery of the Mad Marquess, in which I played a young American girl who inherits a haunted castle on the English moors which is filled with secret passages and sliding panels and, unbeknownst to anyone, is still occupied by an eccentric maniac.

While Andronikos was on one of his incursions, his castle was surprised by the governor of Trebizond, and Theodora and her two children were captured and sent to Constantinople.

File: Innsbruck castle courtyard. jpg | Innsbruck Castle Courtyard, 1494, Gouache and watercolour on paper

After his victory, Arnulf built a new castle on an island in the Dijle river ( Dutch: Dijle, English and French: Dyle ).

The castle was built between 1864 and 1879 on a cliff by the Atlantic ocean, and was designed by Viollet Le Duc in the Neo Gothic style.

Nowadays the castle still belongs to the Academy of Science to which it was bequeathed in 1895 on condition of its producing within fifty years a catalogue of half-a-million stars.

He began with a castle on Capo di Bolo, around which he constructed residences for several hundred people.

The name Afyon Kara Hisar ( literally opium black castle in Turkish ), since opium was widely grown here and there is a castle on a black rock.

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.

It was a mid-summer shoot and while on location on a huge castle set that was built near Acton, California on the edge of the Mojave Desert, the cast and crew endured very hot conditions during the day and very cold temperatures at night.

Common themes were based on fantasy, or were intended to give the user the illusion of being somewhere else, such as in a sanatorium, wizard's castle, or on a pirate ship.

The castle ruin Hammershus, on the northwestern tip of the island, is the largest medieval fortress in northern Europe, testament to the importance of its location.

For example, after Henry V of England defeated a French army on October 25, 1415, he met with the senior French herald and they agreed to name the battle after the nearby castle and so it was called the Battle of Agincourt.

Since 1987 an illustration of the castle has featured on the reverse side of £ 100 notes issued by the Royal Bank of Scotland.

During the days of the Roman Empire, the settlement of Augusta Raurica was founded 10 or 20 kilometres upstream of present Basel, and a castle was built on the hill overlooking the river where the Basel Münster now stands.

Charles provided the voice-over commentary for the UK version of the Japanese game show Takeshi's Castle, shown on Challenge and Ftn ( 2002 – 2004 ), in which contestants attempted to pass a series of near-impossible physical challenges, to reach the final showdown at the castle and win cash prizes.

File: Ogrodzieniec castle 20070504 1037. jpg | Ruins of the Ogrodzieniec Castle, built on the King's order

The symbolism of Camelot so impressed Alfred, Lord Tennyson that he wrote up a prose sketch on the castle as one of his earliest attempts to treat the Arthurian legend.

One of the oldest is Dublin Castle, which was first founded as a major defensive work on the orders of King John of England in 1204, shortly after the Norman invasion of Ireland in 1169, when it was commanded that a castle be built with strong walls and good ditches for the defence of the city, the administration of justice, and the protection of the King ’ s treasure.

Largely complete by 1230, the castle was of typical Norman courtyard design, with a central square without a keep, bounded on all sides by tall defensive walls and protected at each corner by a circular tower.