The Silversmithing Museum of Ioannina was inaugurated on Saturday to showcase the rich work of Greek silversmiths since the 15th century.

President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos inaugurated the museum, which is the ninth museum established by the Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation, an organization that promotes traditional Greek crafts.

The Silversmithing Museum is located inside the Ioannina Castle (Kale) in the western bastion of the southeastern cita… (View original article)

It seems like nearly everyone who wanders into the Crystal River Valley and sees Redstone finds it an enchanting experience. Particularly if they’re able to visit the Redstone Castle.

Partly because it’s an amazing, enchanting building. Partly because it’s in an amazing, enchanting place. A quakie and pine forest climbs steeply up to the Snowmass Wilderness boundary behind. A 10-acre front lawn ends at the river. You reach it on the Castle’s private road from Redstone a mile downst… (View original article)

Iandra castle – an unexpected delight to Canberra’s north-west. Photo: Tim the Yowie Man

On a lonely back road between Young and Cowra, amongthe patchwork of golden canola fields looms the stately edifice of a Romanesque-style castle. 

Complete with turrets and a rectangular tower with slit windows, Iandra Castle resembles a rampart you’d expect to see perched above the Rhine River in Germany, not on a farm just two hours’ drive to the north-west of … (View original article)

Carbisdale Castle

CARBISDALE Castle has been sold to a privately owned investment company for an undisclosed sum, it was announced today.

The Scottish Youth Hostel Association (SYHA), who ran the castle as a youth hostel until it closed four years ago, said it had been sold to FCFM Group.

The group’s largest shareholder has been named as Jason Granite.

The new owners have pledged to restore the castle to its “former glory” and have said it will be us… (View original article)

The wrought iron gates of Hillsborough CastleHISTORIC Royal Palaces, the charity responsible for the Tower of London, Hampton Court Palace, the Banqueting House, Kensington Palace and Kew Palace, is to lead a project which will transform the village of Hillsborough in Co. Down.

The project will include a £60million golf and luxury hotel resort, plans for a £16million visitor centre in the historic village have also been agreed and Hillsborough Forest Park will likewise bene… (View original article)

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College of Wizardry

For those of us who didn’t get a Hogwarts letter, there’s some good news.

There’s a real-life castle in Poland where you can learn the magical arts. 

At the College of Wizardry located in Leśna, “long-flowing robes and dragontooth wands meet jeans and leather jackets.” Enrolled students can cast spells, learn about Ancient Runes, … (View original article)

SALIL DESAI visits Kronborg Castle — believed to be the home of one of Shakespeare’s most famous and recognisable characters — and explores its fascinating past and entertaining presentSALIL DESAI visits Kronborg Castle — believed to be the home of one of Shakespeare’s most famous and recognisable characters — and explores its fascinating past and entertaining present

In all probability, not many of us have seen a stage enactment of
Hamlet
. So how would it feel, to not just watc… (View original article)