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.

Azuchi Castle on the shores of Lake Biwa is said to have been the greatest castle in the history of Japan, covered with gold and statues on the outside and decorated with standing screen, sliding door, wall, and ceiling paintings made by his subject Kano Eitoku on the inside.

Carisbrooke Castle was subject to an unsuccessful French siege in 1377, the Crown reacting by equipping the castle with cannon and a mill for producing gunpowder in 1379.

This documented the poor quality of these castle facilities ; prisoners in Norwich Castle lived in a dungeon, with the floor frequently covered by an inch of water ; Oxford was " close and offensive "; Worcester was so subject to gaol-fever that the castle surgeon would not enter the prison ; Gloucester was " wretched in the extreme ".

In one occasion, the enemy commander, Zhou Yu, left the defense of his main camp to his subordinate, Ling Tong, and led most of the troops to rescue another subject, Gan Ning, who was surrounded by Cao Ren's cavalry in a distant castle.

Its subject is human life told in the allegory of King Hart ( Heart ) in his castle, surrounded by his five servitors ( the senses ), Queen, Plesance, Foresight and other courtiers.

English Jews were subject to considerable religious prejudice and primarily worked from towns and cities in which there was a local royal castle that could provide them with protection in the event of attacks from the majority Christian population.

The castle has been the subject of an ongoing restoration project spanning from the beginning of the Tinney family's occupation of the castle up to and including the present day.

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

These forts are likely to have been centres of power of the Votadini, who were the subject of the poem Y Gododdin which is thought to have been written about 600 AD in their hillfort on Edinburgh castle crag.

The building of a castle at Roscrea was the subject of dispute between the king ’ s representatives and the bishops of Killaloe until 1280, as the castle was built on church land without the bishop ’ s permission.

Crossing the Dodder by a ford, and proceeding along its southern bank towards Rathfarnham, a splendid gateway at left, accounted among the best productions of that species of architecture in Ireland, invites the tourist to explore the once beautiful grounds of Rathfarnham Castle, but they are now all eloquently waste, the undulating hills covered with rank herbage, the rivulet stagnant and sedgy, the walks scarce traceable, the ice-houses open to the prying sun, the fish-pond clogged with weeds, while the mouldering architecture of the castle, and the crumbling, unsightly offices in its immediate vicinity ,… The castle, so long the residence of the Loftus family, and still the property of the Marquis of Ely, subject, however, to a small chief rent to Mr. Conolly, is an extensive fabric ,..... The great hall is entered from a terrace, by a portico of eight Doric columns, which support a dome, painted in fresco with the signs of the Zodiac and other devices.

Having spent time in Europe studying the subject, he designed his own castle at Craignethan in Lanarkshire as a showcase for his ideas.

The castle is said to be haunted and has been subject to many paranormal investigations.

Built on a geologically unstable hill of London clay, the castle has often been subject to subsidence ; this, combined with the sale of its stonework in the 16th century has led to it now being ruined.

Today, the castle is subject to a high degree of legal protection as a Scheduled Monument, and its main structures are all either Grade I or Grade II * listed buildings.

The Milanese reeve of Como, Gian Giacomo Medici, who resided on castle Musso, had been raiding the valley of Chiavenna since 1521, and in 1526 he even occupied the Valtellina, both subject territories of the Three Leagues.

Count Graimberg made the castle a pervasive subject for pictures which became forerunners of the postcard.

The church and castle have been the subject of numerous restorations, a major one in 1913 and subsequent ones, particularly during the 1970s, have resulted in the rebuilding of many walls and towers that had fallen into disrepair.

The castle has been subject to numerous sieges and several battles have been waged aside its walls.

The ruins of the castle were the subject of a long running dispute before the M50 motorway was built through the site of the castle.

In 1693 Morosini resumed command, but his only acts were to refortify the castle of Aegina, which he had demolished during the Cretan war in 1655, the cost of upkeep being paid as long as the war lasted, by the Athenians, and to place it and Salamis under Malipiero as Governor.

The Gallery Tower originally guarded the 152-metre ( 500-ft ) long, narrow walled-causeway that still runs from the Brays to the main castle.

He developed, implemented, and expanded the use of long pikes, firearms and castle fortifications in accordance with the expanded mass battles of the period.

The castle has been the equivalent of a holiday residence for the Giudichessa Eleanor of Arborea, and was object of alternate possession by the Giudicato d ' Arborea and the Aragon, during the long fight before the Spanish conquest.

Knox's chaplaincy of the castle garrison was not to last long.

Totnes has a long recorded history, dating back to AD 907 when its first castle was built ; it was already an important market town by the 12th century.

During his long reign royal castle of Buda became probably the largest Gothic palace of the late Middle Ages.

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.

However, not long after, the castle is converted to accommodate anti-fascist politicals in enforced exile.

The conquest of Cumberland was the beginning of a long war between Scotland and England which saw the region change hands a number of times and centred around Carlisle, it having become a major stronghold with the construction of the castle.

With the kingdoms uniting Carlisle Castle should have become obsolete as a frontier fortress but in 1642 civil war broke out and the castle was garrisoned for the king in 1642, and endured a long siege, Carlisle ’ s eighth, from October 1644 until June 1645.

In 1325 Galeazzo I, after conquering the city after a long siege, puts his hand to new great works of defense: the bifurcation of the River Lambro ( the Lambretto ) and the construction of a castle, the third in Monza.

The main castle courtyard, accessed through the southern gateway, was 120 feet long by 72 feet wide ( 37 m by 22 m ), and was divided from the smaller northern yard by a three-office wing, built around 1716 and renovated in 1761 in a modern, 18th-century style.

With the renovations, the castle ended up with a main building and two long projecting wings, one of which is a Renaissance structure built over a cloister.

Until 2001, there was a system of narrow-gauge railway built in the 19th and 20th centuries that ran from Hunedoara castle, near Zlaşti through a 747 and a 42 meter long tunnel through the mountain, and the breathtaking landscape of " Ţara Pădurenilor " ( Woodlanders ' country ) before arriving to Govăjdia.

The last remaining long narrow-gauge rail system from the Hunedoara castle to Zlaşti was in use by the Talc-Dolomită Zlaşti company till 2007.

Four other smaller parks were also located near the castle, extending the potential for hunting across a long east-west belt of emparked land.

Purchasing and reading guidebooks became an increasingly important part of visiting castles ; by the 1820s visitors could buy an early guidebook at Goodrich outlining the castle's history, the first guidebook to the Tower of London was published in 1841 and Scottish castle guidebooks became well known for providing long historical accounts of their sites, often drawing on the plots of Romantic novels for the details.

The structure of the castle was changed during the long reign of the Elector Augustus of Saxony ( 1553 – 1586 ), and the complex was reconstructed into a Renaissance style castle from 1577 to 1591, including the portions that were still in the gothic architectural style.

The castle thus functioned as a hospital during a long period of massive upheaval in Germany, from slightly after the Napoleonic Wars destroyed the Holy Roman Empire and created the German Confederation, throughout the lifespan of the North German Confederation, the complete reign of the German Empire, throughout the First World War, and until the beginnings of the Weimar Republic.

From the door of a castle emerges the Duc de Blangis, who strongly resembles Christ, with his long robes and beard.

Whilst visiting Belvoir castle in the 1840s Anna Maria Russell, Duchess of Bedford found that the normal time for dinner was between 7: 00 and 8: 30 p. m. An extra meal called luncheon had been created to fill the midday gap between breakfast and dinner, but as this new meal was very light, the long afternoon with no refreshment at all left people feeling hungry.

Its ancient position at the crossroads where the route to Saint-Hubert crossed that from Liège to Bouillon required fortifying: the ruins of the old castle, which gave the place its name and a title to a long line of counts who had the right of coining their own money, still exist.