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Castles, Châteaux, and Fortresses - Content concerning historic fortifications and palaces.

Castles, Châteaux, and Fortresses!

Content concerning historic fortifications and palaces is welcome here.


Submission Rules

  • Include the location in the title.
  • Only submit high quality images and gifs.
  • Cinematic short videos are allowed. (No Vlogs!)
  • Your pictures, albums, videos, questions, stories, or any castles related content is welcome.
  • Do not submit a shortened link using a URL shortener like tinyurl.

Non-OC submissions are restricted to one per day (24-hour period).

  • Make sure your image is hosted by an approved host.(Reddit, Imgur, Flickr). Images hosted on blogs are allowed only if you are the original creator.

  • Original source is allowed and preferred over the approved hosts. If your submission is not on the list of approved hosts, but it is an original source, please use the tag [OS] so your submission is not removed in error. If your image is rehosted from another approved host it will be removed.

  • If you took the photo yourself, you can signify this by using the tag [OC] (original content) and after 24 hours you will be given special flair. If you don't receive flair after a few days feel free to message the mods.

  • Regarding reposts: it is not a repost unless it was posted to /r/castles less than 30 days ago, or if it's already in the top100 of all time.


Other subreddits you may enjoy:


Map of Castles - http://u.osmfr.org/m/56578/

  • Due to events that transpired in a recent (but indeterminate) time frame, moderator Hoohill can no longer guarantee visitors to r/castles immunity from accusations of witchcraft. Please take this into account and ensure all future visits to r/castles are undertaken with considerable caution.

/r/castles

215,314 Subscribers

248

Carbisdale Castle, Scotland.

1 Comment
2024/12/03
03:59 UTC

951

Dunnottar Castle, Scotland.

3 Comments
2024/12/03
00:12 UTC

276

Prizren fortress, in the southern Kosovo

1 Comment
2024/12/02
19:26 UTC

967

Aragonese Castle , Gulf of Naples, Italy

1 Comment
2024/12/02
18:57 UTC

739

Schloss Enn 🏰 South Tyrol, Italy 🏰 [12.02]

2 Comments
2024/12/02
13:00 UTC

434

Somoška Castle, Slovakia

2 Comments
2024/12/02
09:36 UTC

2,407

Hohenzollern Castle, Germany

8 Comments
2024/12/02
08:19 UTC

413

Alnwick Castle, England

Took this one a couple years back

2 Comments
2024/12/01
23:45 UTC

2,151

Rocca Calascio, Italy 🇮🇹

11 Comments
2024/12/01
19:36 UTC

907

Castel Sant'Angelo Vatican City

7 Comments
2024/12/01
18:00 UTC

971

Ruins of Drzewica Castle, Poland.

2 Comments
2024/12/01
14:20 UTC

420

Chris Mark Castle 🏰 Woodstock, Connecticut 🏰 [12.01]

0 Comments
2024/12/01
13:00 UTC

308

Bratislava castle, Slovakia. Burnt to a shell by Napoleon's forces in 1811, it was only rebuilt in 1953. [OC]

2 Comments
2024/12/01
11:09 UTC

1,488

Puilaurens Castle is a castle, first Catarian and then French, already existed in 10th Century and abandoned at the end of 17th Century. It is located in commune of Lapradelle-Puilaurens, in French department of SiAude, on a rocky spur (mount Ardu, 697m above sea level)

35 Comments
2024/12/01
05:45 UTC

1,368

Castle De Haar, located outside Utrecht, Netherlands.

4 Comments
2024/11/30
22:12 UTC

456

Castelo de Soutomaior 🏰 Galicia, Spain 🏰 [11.30]

0 Comments
2024/11/30
13:00 UTC

891

Karlstein castle / hrad Karlštejn

Bekijk deze Instagram-foto van @amazingshots_castle https://www.instagram.com/p/DC9qzvfMVZ2/?utm_source=ig_web_button_native_share

2 Comments
2024/11/30
09:57 UTC

2,616

Hochosterwitz Castle, Austria

10 Comments
2024/11/30
09:45 UTC

1,192

Schwerin castle 🏤 🇩🇪

Bekijk deze Instagram-foto van @amazingshots_castle https://www.instagram.com/p/DC69NH7MoXN/?utm_source=ig_web_button_native_share

1 Comment
2024/11/30
09:36 UTC

426

Fortress of Masyaf, Syria

1 Comment
2024/11/29
23:18 UTC

1,281

Burg Sooneck, Germany

5 Comments
2024/11/29
22:50 UTC

2,638

Castle Sigmaringen, Germany

9 Comments
2024/11/29
19:43 UTC

1,481

Chateau du Sailhant 🏰 Andelat, France 🏰 [11.29]

3 Comments
2024/11/29
13:00 UTC

278

Smolenice Castle, Slovakia (not Bojnice)

1 Comment
2024/11/29
12:27 UTC

351

Derawar Fort, in Bahawalpur, Pakistan (first built in the 9th century, upgraded to present form in 17th century)

1 Comment
2024/11/29
11:59 UTC

727

Orava Castle, Slovakia

3 Comments
2024/11/29
11:25 UTC

1,372

Château de Peyrelade, France 🇫🇷

9 Comments
2024/11/29
10:57 UTC

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