Castle Hunter 🏰
@castlehunteruk
History enthusiast who spends too much of his time searching out castles (all photos are taken by me on my castle hunting)
Home now after a solid week of castle hunting, 10 sites visited and some brilliant new castle now ticked off my list. Still have barely scratched the surface of castles in the UK and many more trips ahead 😃 #castle #castlehunter
View from atop the keep at Brougham Castle, Cumbria 🏴 cannot measure how jealous I am of the farm owner opposite the 🏰
Peñíscola. La fortaleza templaria más notable de la Corona de Aragón, una perla sobre el mar, el Krak de los caballeros valenciano. Sede papal durante unos años, centro neurálgico del Cisma de Occidente, donde un obstinado se mantuvo en sus trece.
Sunday conversation, which castle 🏰 is top of everyone’s bucket list to visit?? mine are Arundel Castle in the Uk and Chateau Gaillard outside the UK 🏰
Crac de los Caballeros 🇸🇾
Sunday conversation, which castle 🏰 is top of everyone’s bucket list to visit?? mine are Arundel Castle in the Uk and Chateau Gaillard outside the UK 🏰
La Ciutadella d'Alep
Sunday conversation, which castle 🏰 is top of everyone’s bucket list to visit?? mine are Arundel Castle in the Uk and Chateau Gaillard outside the UK 🏰
Castell de Montsoriu. La Selva. Principat de Catalunya
1/ 🏰 Stobnica Castle 📍Wielkopolska, Poland In the middle of a nature reserve, surrounded by forest and lake, rises Stobnica Castle — a mysterious modern fortress inspired by medieval design It’s not from the Middle Ages… but its story is just as dramatic Lets explore 🧵👇
All the little and not-so-little details! Also I just happened to miss the end of the 2024 Medieval Jousting Tournament 😅 (Sorry for the blur in the last two pictures—ig if you want better ones you’ll have to go there yourself 😅)
Love accompanies us wherever we are….🤍 #NaturePhotography #Austria 🇦🇹 #Burgruine #Castle #CastleLiebenfels 🏰 @ThePhotoHour @castlehunteruk 🩶 #SundayFeeling #SundayThoughts 🫶
Botron Botron is a little known crusader castle in modern-day Lebanon (formerly the Crusader county of Tripoli) Famously in the late 12thC a knight called Gerard of Ridefort received the promise of marrying the castle's heiress, but then a merchant ... (see below)
SUMMER OF GAMES! This August we will be filling Newcastle Castle with games and sports from all across history. Play, bat, aim and score your way through history as you try your hand at games from the past and learn more about the people who played them. ✨Plan your visit now!
El castell que tinc més ganes de visitar, sense cap mena de discussió, és el magnífic castell de Montsoriu.
Sunday conversation, which castle 🏰 is top of everyone’s bucket list to visit?? mine are Arundel Castle in the Uk and Chateau Gaillard outside the UK 🏰
I love a moat so I’m going to say Bodiam.
Stokesay Shropshire Might try to get there in October Krak du Chevalier in Syria as it looked complete Not sure if it is now
My favourite Fell in love seeing it in Mary Queen of Scots film with Vanessa Redgrave ,( I was a teenager!)& knew I needed to find it Go every year It also featured in the last Indiana Jones
Sunday conversation, which castle 🏰 is top of everyone’s bucket list to visit?? mine are Arundel Castle in the Uk and Chateau Gaillard outside the UK 🏰