Golubac

Golubac Fortress is a medieval fortified town that is located 4 kilometers downstream of the modern-day village of Golubac, Serbia. The co...

Paro Taktsang

Clinging to the edge of a 900m cliff, Taktshang Goemba (Tiger’s Nest Monastery) is famous in Bhutan but like so much of the remote kingdom...

Dún Aonghasa - Ireland

Dún Aonghasa is the most famous of several prehistoric forts on the Aran Islands, of County Galway, Ireland. It is located on Inishmore at t...

CITADEL OF JERUSALEM

View of the citadel of Jerusalem. The ancient city of Jerusalem (in Arabian Al-Quds and in Hebrew Yerushalaim, meaning city of peace) was ...

Hill of Tara

The hill of Tara (Irish, Teamhair na Rí, “Hill of the King”) is a low limestone ridge standing at 646 feet (197 m) running near the river ...

Aberdour Castle

Aberdour Castle is located in the village of Easter Aberdour, Fife, Scotland. Parts of the castle date from around 1200, making Aberdour o...

Real Middle Earth

Middle-earth. J.R.R. Tolkien’s invented mythology centred on an epic story of the struggle between Good and Evil, but it also included an el...

THE GREEN MAN IN MYTH

  When we hear the word “mythology,” we think of stories, fables, and fairy tales. Nevertheless, myth is not make-believe. Myth is based on ...

CATCH THE WHITE STAG

The White Stag by Ruth Sanderson Beldane would have found the scene unfolding before him amusing if capturing this legendary creature weren’...

Stone Circles at Castlerigg

If Stonehenge is the most famous stone circle in Britain, the Castlerigg Stone Circle, near Keswick in the Lake District, must be the most a...

CASTLES OF GLASS

For years archaeologists try to explain the mystery of vitrified fortresses, without convincing results so far. Many stones are sintered, b...

CARDINAL RICHELIEU: 1585–1642

The name of Cardinal Richelieu, prime minister of France under Louis XIII, has become synonymous with the figure, ‘the power behind the thro...

MOTTE AND BAILEY

At the beginning of the eleventh century the motte was the most widespread form of castle in northern Europe (except the British Isles and S...

The Knights Templar

The two principal orders of knighthood of the Crusades were established prior to the launching of the first crusade in 1096 and shortly befo...

JOTUNHEIM -RPG

Jotunheim is not a place for the faint of heart. It is the land of the Frost Giants, and that makes it a very dangerous place to begin with....

Dundrum Castle

Dundrum, or the Magennis Castle, as it may have looked in earlier times. This 12th-century castle with its circular four-storey high k...

CASTELLANY

Motte-and-Bailey Castle Schematic View of a 14th Century Castle. Such a castle was characterized by height and verticality. (1) Ditch...

Reign of Fire

By Jeff Koyen Note: This article originally appeared in issue 18 of the Prague Pill. Dragons – not nukes – and the end of the worl...