Although the defensive walls were stone, the impressive six-story castle keep is made of wood and white plaster. The grounds of the castle are also gorgeous, with 1,000 cherry trees that blossom ...

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RUTH GOODMAN: This is how many of us think of the interior of castles. Bare stone, echoey, damp, gritty underfoot, but that's because we're used to ruins.When they were in use, back in the 13th ...

Guédelon Castle has been under construction for 26 years—using only historically accurate medieval tools and methods. Here’s what that looks like in practice.

Rudkhan Castle spans an area of 6.5 hectares and has a 1,500-meter long wall with 65 towers. The walls are 3 to 10 meters in height and are thicker and taller in penetrable sections with thicker ...

NORTHERN BURGUNDY, France — Deep in a forest of France's Burgundy region, a group of enthusiasts is building a medieval castle the old-fashioned way — that is, with tools and methods from the ...

Many stone structures from Southampton’s medieval town still remain - walls, vaults and buildings. But regretfully the Castle has vanished – or has it?

Inside a medieval castle. video Inside a medieval castle Those cold stone walls need some cheering up! Ruth Goodman, Tom Pinfold and Peter Ginn discover that medieval castles were lavishly ...

To lift the tons of wood and stone needed to finish the castle's outer walls, two men walk inside a contraption that looks much like a giant hamster wheel. It's a kind of medieval crane with a central ...