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Château de Caen in Caen, France

This castle was originally built in 1060 by William the Conquerer who would conquer England in 1066.

During my last trip to Normandy in 2011 we stayed in Caen for 10 days. Making it our "base of operations." There was a wonderful restaurant with great French oysters with a grear view of the castle. I think I took the third picture below while sitting at that restaurant.



You can see William the Conqueror's grave at the nearby Abbey of Saint-Étienne.

 

Moyland Castle.
The history of Moyland Castle begins in the early 14th century. Over the subsequent centuries, the medieval moated castle was remodelled many times. A significant change in the complex took place in the baroque period. In the 19th century, the master builder of Cologne Cathedral Ernst Friedrich Zwirner reconstructed the castle in the neo-gothic style. Until 1945, the von Steengracht family, who had bought the estate in 1766, used the castle as their residence. Following severe damages during the end of the Second World War, the building remained a ruin for decades. After the founding of the Museum Schloss Moyland Foundation in 1990, the reconstruction of the castle and restoration of the garden complex began, according to their last historically documented state.
Baroque garden elements such as the avenues and moats still dominate the basic structure of the complex today. It combines elements of a landscape garden with those of an architectural garden, a sculpture garden as well as a herb garden.

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Hirschhorn Castle is located on a south-facing spur of the Stöckberg directly above the old town of Hirschhorn in Germany. It is strategically positioned so that the Neckar valley and the exits of the Finkenbach valley and the Ulfenbach valley could be controlled from it.
Hirschhorn Castle was founded around 1260 by Johann von Hirschhorn , who named himself after the castle for the first time in 1270.In the course of history the castle has had many owners.
The castle, which was mostly made of sandstone , was spared major systematic destruction in modern times and is therefore in a very good state of preservation today.

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Raglan Castle is a late medieval castle located just north of the village of Raglan in the county of Monmouthshire in south east Wales. The modern castle dates from between the 15th and early 17th centuries, when the successive ruling families of the Herberts and the Somersets created a luxurious, fortified castle, complete with a large hexagonal keep, known as the Great Tower or the Yellow Tower of Gwent. Surrounded by parkland, water gardens and terraces, the castle was considered by contemporaries to be the equal of any other in England or Wales.During the First English Civil War, Raglan was occupied by a Royalist garrison on behalf of Charles I but was taken by Parliamentarian forces in 1646 and its walls slighted, or deliberately put beyond military use. After the Stuart Restoration in 1660, the Somersets declined to restore it and it became first a source of local building materials, then a romantic ruin. It is now a tourist attraction.

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The Wijnendale Castle is a moated castle located in the wooded area of the Wijnendalebos in the West Flemish Houtland and Bruges area, 3km from the city of Torhout. The current castle is largely a 19th century reconstruction. Part of the north wing dates back to the 15th century. The oldest wing of the castle is inhabited by the owners, the other is open to the public as a tourist museum.The original castle was founded, according to later chronicles, by Robrecht de Fries, Count of Flanders, at the end of the 11th century. The oldest mention of the castle in a contemporary source, Galbert van Brugge's diary, dates back to 1127. This shows that the castle was used as a base for military operations. it became a regular residence of the counts of Flanders. Count Philip of Alsace came here with his court council in 1168.The wooded area was an excellent hunting ground for the count's family and his guests. Diplomatic consultations were also held at the castle. In 1297 Guy of Dampierre joined a treaty of alliance with the English king Edward I.

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