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Спишский Град (словацк. Spis?ky Hrad) — самый большой замок Словакии, исторический центр Спишской области, памятник Всемирного наследия ЮНЕСКО. Замок возвышается на доломитовых скалах на высоте почти 200 метров над окружающими полями и городком Спишское Подградье. Chateau France, Castle Ruins, Beautiful Castles, A Castle, A Hill, Central Europe, Medieval Castle, Beautiful Buildings, Pretty Places

Спишский Град (словацк. Spis?ky Hrad) — самый большой замок Словакии, исторический центр Спишской области, памятник Всемирного наследия ЮНЕСКО. Замок возвышается на доломитовых скалах на высоте почти 200 метров над окружающими полями и городком Спишское Подградье.

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A section through the Longtown Castle keep, with a plan of the principal room and a cutaway reconstruction of the keep viewed from the south-west. Images: Neil Kidd/Martin Cook. Viking Farming, Castle Cutaway, Labyrinth Castle, Swiss Castle, Medieval Keep, Camelot Castle, Star Fortress, Aesthetic Medieval, Ludlow Castle

Straddling the border between Herefordshire and Monmouthshire in the lee of the Black Mountains, the parish of Longtown has the remains of two castles. One is a popular visitor attraction in the care of English Heritage, with a stout-walled round keep. Half a mile away is another, in the form of a large earthen mound. When the members of the Longtown & District Historical Society decided to investigate, they realised that little was known about either castle, so they set out to find out when…

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This diagram, photographed inside the castle, shows the keep as it probably looked when it stood alone in the fifteenth century. It was built by the Maxwells of Calderwood. Unusually the turnpike stair in this, the oldest part of the castle, rotates anticlockwise (as you climb). Most castle spiral staircases rotate clockwise, the theory being that a clockwise stair is easier for a right handed swordsman to defend. I have seen this in one other castle before (and I can’t remember which one)…

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