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

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 battle, as was the tradition, was named after a nearby castle called Azincourt.

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.

On 7 July 2006, the new Town Museum of Abensberg was opened in the former duke's castle in the town.

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 ).

She died broken-hearted in July of the next year, at the castle of Poissy, and was buried in the Convent of St Corentin, near Nantes.

Even after the Norman Conquest, Ealdred still controlled some events in Worcester, and it was Ealdred, not Wulfstan, who opposed Urse d ' Abetot's attempt to extend the castle of Worcester into the cathedral after the Norman Conquest.

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.

He grew up at the castle of his father, and was brought up alongside his older brother Esbern Snare and the young prince Valdemar, who later became King Valdemar I of Denmark.

In 1167, Absalon was granted the land around the city of " Havn " (), and built there a castle in the coastal defense against the Wends.

He was the son of Raymond IV of Toulouse by his third wife, Elvira of Castile, was born in the castle of Mont-Pelerin, Tripoli, in today's Lebanon.

The castle was seat of the County of Ascania, a title that was later subsumed into the titles of the princes of Anhalt.

Soon, however, the Duke of Canossa, Alberto Uzzo, who had been advised of the rescue, arrived and carried her off to his castle, where she was besieged by Berengar.

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.

The castle was classified as a protected historical monument by France in 1984 and most of the domain now belongs to the Coastal Protection Agency and is managed by the city of Hendaye.

The Castello Vecchio (" old castle "), a ruined citadel, was believed to be Roman but turned out to have Gothic features.

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 area surrounding the castle ( known as the Yamanote ) consisted largely of daimyō ( feudal lords ') mansions, whose families lived in Edo as part of the sankin kōtai system ; the daimyō made journeys in alternating years to Edo, and used the mansions for their entourages.

The castle was taken by Parliamentarian troops in 1644 during the Civil War, and largely destroyed in 1648 not as the result of warfare, but because of an order from Parliament to dismantle all Royalist castles.

* The castle of Rapperswil is largely destroyed by Rudolf Brun, mayor of the city of Zürich.

This strategic location invested it with importance in medieval times and its large castle remains largely intact.

The British Army are responsible for some parts of the castle, although their presence is largely ceremonial and administrative, including a number of regimental museums.

de Lacy eventually regained his title of Earl of Ulster in 1227, however the castle and its walled town were captured several more times following his death ( in 1242 ) and the town largely destroyed by the Scots in 1402.

In 1850 he engaged his architect Sir Joseph Paxton, the designer of The Crystal Palace, to carry out improvements and additions to the castle on a magnificent scale-so much so that the present skyline is largely Paxton's work.

The Inner Court is overlooked by the Bailey, for example ; the north of the Inner Court is largely exposed, while the positioning of arrow-slits in the curtain wall ignores much of the castle.

Before 1190 mining was used rarely and the siege engines of the time were largely incapable of damaging the thicker castle walls.

It is one of the oldest rooms in the castle, dating from the 1740s, though its decoration largely dates from c. 1790, including the most significant painted ceiling in Ireland executed by Vincenzo Valdre ( c. 1742 – 1814 ).

Also called the Picture Gallery, and formerly known as the Supper Room, this is the oldest room in the castle and largely retains its original decoration, having escaped major modification and fire over the years.

With renovations largely completed, the castle now includes both a museum and guided tours showing some of the escape tunnels built by prisoners of the Oflag during World War II.

This meant that no further damage was done to the fabric of the castle during the English Civil War, that caused so much damage to many old fortifications either through bombardment or slighting, and so, along with sympathetic ownership, the keep survived as a ruin, but largely intact, down to the 21st century.

It was rebuilt again to largely the same designs, and barring minor details this image shows the castle as it remains today.

The rest of the castle was largely destroyed during the Siege of Athlone and subsequently rebuilt and enlarged.

It hugs a rocky coastal ridge of grey sand-and limestone, and much of the stone from the castle is largely taken from the ridge itself, probably when the site was first cleared ..

The natural geographical features of the valley surrounding Alamut largely secured the castle ’ s defence.

The outer fortifications were immediately levelled, but the main castle buildings and towers survived until about 1648, at which point they were largely destroyed by the parliamentary forces.

The area corresponded largely with that of the medieval province subjugated to the Viipuri castle.

Nowadays to visit the castle is to experience the fascination of life in the middle of the 19th century in a residence that has remained largely intact and which gives the visitor an insight into the personality of Maximilian.

The castle ceased to be a royal residence by 1600 and was largely rendered obsolete in the 16th century by artillery.

Such territory had a catlá (" castellan " or lord of the castle ) in an area largely defined by a day's ride, and the region became known, like Castile at a later date, as " Catalunya.

This site is now largely covered by the castle market.

The castle was 40 years in construction, and the work was largely supervised by the Adam family, still renowned to this day as gifted architects and designers.

Although the early history of the castle is largely undocumented, it is generally accepted that it was severely damaged during a period of Welsh rebellion in the early fourteenth century.