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On June 1st, 2021 [15] Lego released the Creator 3-1 Medieval Castle in the Creator theme. [16] In July 2022 the Lego Lions Knight Castle was released [17] inspired by the original Castle set in 1984. [18] On March 1st, 2024 [19] Lego released the Lego Icons Medieval Town Square set as a remake of the 2009 Medieval Market Village. This set also ...
The castle is famous for its bold octagonal plan, and classicizing details of the architecture. In 1996, Castel del Monte was named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, which described it as "a unique masterpiece of medieval military architecture". [3]
Castral enclosure and surroundings. The castle site is located on a promontory fort in the commune of Montbazon, in the French department of Indre-et-Loire.The site is protected on two sides by the valleys of the Indre and the Gironde, which together form a small temporary tributary that also serves as the moat for the town's enclosure.
Mategriffon or Matagrifone or Mathegriffon [1] or Rocca Guelfonia [2] was a medieval castle in Messina, Sicily, located in what is today Viale Principe Umberto. Its strategic position upon a rocky hill close to the historic city centre gave a commanding view of the harbour and Strait of Messina .
The elevated entrance of Tirol Castle is, however, about 1.25 metres wide and over three metres high. The gateways are generally designed as round arches, more rarely as Gothic arches. Late medieval entrances sometimes have straight or stepped lintels and even trefoil arches (e.g. Kronsegg Castle, Lower Austria). The door frames are usually ...
The Medieval Castle in England and Wales: A social and political history. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-45828-5. Thompson, M.W. (1991). The Rise of the Castle. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-37544-4. Wheatley, Abigail (2004). The Idea of the Castle in Medieval England. York, UK: York Medieval Press.
In the Germanic castles of the Holy Roman Empire, there is a distinction between a Vorburg and a Kernburg roughly corresponding to lower and upper baileys in English castles. [3] [page needed] In German-speaking countries, many castles had double curtain walls with a narrow enclosure outside the main walls, acting as a killing ground between ...
Constructed around 1120-1137 by Amaury III of Montfort, the keep or donjon is the only vestige of the medieval castle of Houdan. It is a massive tower isolated from the town in the west, once used as a water tower. The tower is cylindrical, 16 metres in diameter and 25 metres in height.