Do you have a favorite castle?

Op that pic in your link is a castle featured in The Slipper and the Rose. I recognized it immediately.

This one, Liebchen!

This one.

R3 =

[quote] How did they function?

Hundreds of minions, serfs, peasants, servants and nightsoil collectors.

Just old castles or are palaces accepted?

Dunluce

My gggggggggg? Irish granny lived there with her (and my) Scottish cousins. Then I saw it was GoT!

Campbells and MacDonalds, that's like "Smith" there I bet.

As close to royalty as I get.

The happiest one on earth...

The Alcazar in Segovia is pretty awesome.

I've been here twice and would gladly go again. A wonderful experience...

R9 Used in Cary Grant's 'Pride and Passion' in '58 and 'Camelot' in '66.

Warkworth Castle in Northumberland. One of the few that I actually had an entire day to explore.

I have friends who live in a beautiful European castle. DL will be happy to learn it's not the greatest existence Most of the time they live in just a few rooms and they always struggle to keep just those few rooms warm in winter

Also, like most castle owners, they don't have the means to insure all the art in it.

This one:

This one:

(he once had to pretend to be the progeny of Kate Hepburn and Drunkard O'Toole)

Well, if I can't have Neuschwanstein, I'll settle for Lichtenstein.

Grandville Castle Apartments!!!

Not REALLY a castle.

R17, what the fuck is with that nightmare music? And that place looks like a 19th century penitentiary.

[19] It's beautiful music for a beautiful castle.

Why yes, OP. Why yes, I do! You know, OP, we were all standing around the water cooler today when the same question was posed. Then, when we left work for happy hiur, wouldn't you know it? Absolutely EVERYONE in the bar was talking about....you guessed it....THEIR FAVORITE CASTLE!

In those places and times, rimming was a messy and crusty affair…

@r21, Well, just look who has a bee in her bonnet

You also work and hang out with boring people

Despite the quite expensive fuel bills, I am rather partial to Windsor, if I must have a favourite castle.

OP, they had Uber Eats or whatever it was called in the Middle Ages.

I always thought the one in San Marino looks pretty dramatic

One for the winter sports

Mont-Saint-Michel

Hogwarts

This is the only 1 that matters =

Howl if you know this castle . . .

A simple hunting lodge as opposed to a castle....

Enchanted Storybook Castle

A common feature was the Garderobe (toilet) which were usually built into the walls so that they projected out on corbels and any waste fell below and into the castle moat, but preferably into a river or over a cliff edge.

^^ high summer fragrance for all.

Vufflens, near Lausanne. Switzerland is wall to wall castles. There are so many and so picturesque, we stop noticing how fantastic they are. And many are still private. Vufflens is my favorite because I pass by it frequently and it has a nice gentle setting above the lake. It also sort of looks like a toy castle for kids.

It's true. The canton of Vaud in Switzerland has approx 90 castles. Even the smaller canton of Neuchatel has nearly 20. And they're all well maintained.

They add to the sense of living in art.

My grandparents immigrated to the US from Switzerland. I'm starting to wish I could live there.

^ If Switzerland was all that great why did your grandparents leave?

^ Mr Hitler.

Meh. Switzerland and the Swiss is most definitely a mixed bag. But architecture galore and never destroyed by wars. Nice 4 season climate as well.

Jo Ann

If your grandparents were Swiss you can go back.

The Château de Chambord in Chambord, Centre-Val de Loire, France, is one of the most recognizable châteaux in the world because of its very distinctive French Renaissance architecture which blends traditional French medieval forms with classical Renaissance structures. The building, which was never completed, was constructed by Francis I.

Schwerin Castle (also known as Schwerin Palace) is a schloss located in the city of Schwerin, the capital of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state, Germany. It is situated on an island in the city's main lake, Lake Schwerin.