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hilltop castle is a type of hill castle that was built on the summit of a hill or mountain. In the latter case it may be termed a mountaintop castle....

Hohenzollern Castle (German: Burg Hohenzollern [bʊʁk hoːənˈtsɔlɐn] ) is the ancestral seat of the imperial House of Hohenzollern. The third of three hilltop castles...

Castle (姫路城, Himeji-jō) ([çimeʑiꜜʑoː] ) is a hilltop Japanese castle complex situated in Himeji, a city in the Hyōgo Prefecture of Japan. The castle is...

Frankenstein Castle (German: Burg Frankenstein) is a hilltop castle in the Odenwald overlooking the city of Darmstadt in Germany. This castle may have been...

Giechburg is a partly reconstructed hilltop castle near the town of Scheßlitz in Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany. The castle has given its name to a constituent...

following: Hilltop castle (Gipfelburg), that stands on the summit of a hill with steep drops on all sides. A special type is the rock castle or Felsenburg...

were used. The advantage of a hillside castle was that its well was much less deep than that of a hilltop castle. The boring of the well was often the...

Wirtemberg Castle, a ruined hilltop castle, is the second family seat of the House of Württemberg, whose ancestors had abandoned Beutelsbach Castle (also known...

During the Sengoku period the Odawara Hōjō clan considered building a hilltop castle on Nishikigaura for its navy, but were unable to do so. In the 1950s...

Heimburg Castle (German: Burg Heimburg), also called the Altenburg or Alteburg, is a ruined castle on an oval hilltop about 330 metres above sea level...

mountain. Cefnllys Castle in Wales, is a series of 2 castles in Wales. Castle Hill castle Hillside castle Hilltop castle Ridge castle The Oxford Encyclopedia...

The Nürburg is a ruined hilltop castle in the German Eifel Mountains near the village of Nürburg south of Adenau in the district of Ahrweiler in the state...

Tsuruga Castle (鶴ヶ城, Tsuru-ga-jō), also known as Aizuwakamatsu Castle (会津若松城 Aizu-Wakamatsu-jō) is a Japanese castle in northern Japan, at the center of...

Vaduz, the capital of Liechtenstein, which it overlooks from an adjacent hilltop. The former owners, who were presumably also the builders, were the counts...

Frankenstein Castle, Hesse, a 13th-century hilltop castle near Darmstadt, Germany, speculated to be the eponym for Shelley's novel Frankenstein Castle, Palatinate...

filled wells, and a leveled hilltop or a series of terraces, will provide evidence of the original layout of the castle. Whether their buildings are...

and Moselle Stolzenfels Castle, near Koblenz, the epitome of the Rhine romanticism Marksburg Castle, the only hilltop castle in the Middle Rhine Valley...

Novigrad Castle, locally called "Fortica" is a ruined hilltop castle above village of Novigrad in Zadar County, Croatia. It is considered that during...

Ronneburg Castle (German: Burg Ronneburg) is a castle in Ronneburg in the Main-Kinzig district of Hesse, Germany. It is a hilltop castle situated near...

protecting it and its ancient hilltop castle. King Francis II of the Two Sicilies died here in 1894. The Castello di Arco, medieval castle Sanctuary and convent...