The sun was shining, so I decided to take a drive around Vienna. I spotted a beautiful castle and spontaneously stopped. The castle was the former hunting lodge of Prince Eugene of Savoy and Maria The...
A magnificent palace always has magnificent palace gardens. I strolled through such gardens during my visit to the Baroque palace in Bruchsal. These beautiful palace gardens were laid out over 300 yea...
The Münsterland region is rich in imposing moated castles and romantic fortresses set in picturesque countryside. That’s why the cycling city of Münster has created the 100 Castles Route especia...
In the north of the Netherlands, south-west of the village of Santpoort Zuid, in the middle of a huge forest area, lies the picturesque ruins of Brederode Castle on a coastal dune whose foothills lead...
Hesse’s most beautiful baroque palace with a magnificent 100-hectare landscape park is Schloss Fasanerie, located around 7 kilometres from Fulda in Eichenzell. This Baroque gem was built in 1710...
The oldest city in the Netherlands is Nijmegen, where the Romans built their fortress on the 35-metre-high Valkhofheuvel, a hill high above the Waal. In 777, Charlemagne had a palace built on this Rom...
One of the most important neo-Gothic buildings in North Rhine-Westphalia is Moyland Castle, whose name is derived from the Dutch word ‘mooi land’, which means ‘beautiful land’ in English. The pictures...
One of the largest castles in the Netherlands was Montfort Castle, which was built in 1260 on behalf of the Prince-Bishop of Liège, Hendrik III van Gelre, on a ridge in the Vlootbeek Valley not far fr...
A true witness to the Middle Ages is the high medieval ruins of the lowland castle of Hayn, also known as Dreieichenhain Castle, which lies at the end of the northern old town, nestled in a picturesqu...
