It’s a fairy tale landscape where medieval towers stand as weathered sentinels over a sun-drenched landscape, where castles grow in ... t looking for Renaissance art, we were looking for Alberto ...

That is what the Queen of England had on her bedroom walls in the Tower ... Medieval castles were not bare stone inside like today's ruins. Instead, walls were plastered and decorated with paint ...

He seized upon the ruins of a medieval fortress in northern ... By the turn of the century, Sforza Castle boasted among its features four towers at its corners, three interior courtyards, frescoed ...

Built on an island at a connection point between two lakes in Finland lies a stunning 15th century three-tower castle ... or St. Olaf's Castle, is the northernmost medieval stone fortress in ...

The original medieval ruins of this golden-hued castle were purchased and rebuilt by Crown Prince Maximilian in 1832 and became the royal summer palace when he ascended the throne. After ...

well preserved late medieval Irish Tower House, richly steeped in Irish history and tradition dating from the 1500's. The castle was constructed by the Imokilly Fitzgeralds and later passed onto ...

PETER GINN: Castles dominated the landscape ... Tom and Peter are lifting the stone up the tower using a tread and a winch. These were the cranes of the medieval building site.