Topic: Castle Keeps around the world

[Lelygax]

Lets find out other places that resembles the castle keep. 

[PFG9000]

Cool topic.  Does it have to be a real place?

[Ratty]

Ah I thought I remembered an article like this! Though there might be more than one. Here it is.
http://www.castlevaniadungeon.net/features/castles.html
Maybe there should be an update to include the recent notice of how Cagliostro probably influenced Castlevania 3's castle design as well?

[Lelygax]

Cool topic.  Does it have to be a real place?[/img]

Not necessarily, this way its more fun.

Ah I thought I remembered an article like this! Though there might be more than one. Here it is.
http://www.castlevaniadungeon.net/features/castles.html
Maybe there should be an update to include the recent notice of how Cagliostro probably influenced Castlevania 3's castle design as well?

Good idea.

[Lone Wolf]

I wonder how Mr. Dracula would react to the houses down there... And the electric wires...

[Ratty]

I wonder how Mr. Dracula would react to the houses down there... And the electric wires...

Fast food with a built in refrigerator light.

[Lone Wolf]

Fast food with a built in refrigerator light.

LOL! I was thinking that he would feel wacky before all that technology right near his house but, thanks.

[Shiroi Koumori]

This is a good read.
http://www.budget-travel-tips.com/2011/10/romanian-castles-peles-bran-corvinesti.html

Peles Castle is so pretty.
Dat Library!!!

[Lelygax]

Pelé's Castle?! :O


"I will suck all your blood, understand?/Vou sugar todo seu sangue, entende?"

[TheouAegis]

Downvote: bad joke
 

We don't need no stinkin' moat! (Sicilian)


French style keep


4 out of 5 Chocobos can't be wrong (Warkworth Castle)


Another castle fit for a Frog


What better place to defend your domain than inside a mountain? (French)


Day-um! (Froggy went a'courtin')


Leaving Arundel Castlel Keep, or what a Belmont might see (French)


Visegrad Castle, Hungary


Spis Castle, with cathedral in fore (Slovak)

[TheouAegis]

Castlevania was obviously influenced heavily by the Austrian architects, though.

Hohenzollern


Hohenwerfen


And here are some Polish castles with impressive towers:

Malbork


Niedzika


Krzyztopor (this one just looks cool)


Moszna


Grodziec


Ksiaz


Kwidzyn


Kraziczyn


Tenczyn (ruined)


Radzyn



In Germany, there's the beautiful Kreuzenstein


and Coburg


And of course Nuremburg


Lauenstein...


and Guiness record holder Burghausen



And I can't believe, even though it's not technically keeps but still towers, no one brought up Carcassonne

[Mooning Freddy]

Some one should dress up as a Belmont and film himself running through a castle's corridors. That would be awesome.   

[Shiroi Koumori]

Some one should dress up as a Belmont and film himself running through a castle's corridors. That would be awesome.   

I think a cosplayer at deviantart dressed up as Maria and did a photoshoot at  Kaiser Castle Dusseldorf, Germany.
http://adella.deviantart.com/art/Maria-Renard-Castlevania-SOTN-133507036

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

I thank you all for this thread.
It's making planning my Minecraft Castle architecture so much easier.

[TheouAegis]

Some more I found.

Unknown


http://picturrs.com/files/funzug/imgs/travel/castles_amazing_12.jpg

Kilkenny Castle (even the Irish wanted to kill Kenny)


Castile de la Mota (Spain)


Kasteel de Haar (Netherlands)


Guaita (San Marino)


Lichtenstein Castle (you just shit yourself, I know)


Burg Hochosterwitz (Austria)


Alcazar de Segovia (alcazar is a type of castle, this is the most famous one)


Burg Eltz (German)


Burg Satzvey


Burg Altena



Chateau Frontenac (Quebec) [not a castle per se]


Alnwick Castle (aka Hogwarts)


Ashford Castle


Hunyad (Romania)


Leeds Castle (England)


Lowenburg (modern)


Mont St. Michael


Chateau de Sully


Chateau de Chenonceau


Chateau de Challain (because Dracula's castle is essentially a chateau)


Chateau de Chantilly


Chateau de Saumur


Trakai Castle (Lithuania, pre-modern)


Dunrobin (Scottish)