Olavinlinna Castle (Olofsborg) is the most beautiful castle in Finland — a magnificent 15th-century medieval fortress built on a rocky island in the middle of Lake Saimaa in the town of Savonlinna, whose three sturdy round towers and atmospheric stone walls rising directly from the water create one of northern Europe’s most romantic castle settings. […]
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Loket Castle is one of the Czech Republic’s most dramatically situated medieval fortresses — a 12th-century Gothic castle perched on a granite rock surrounded on three sides by the Ohře River, in the charming little town of Loket near Karlovy Vary in western Bohemia. With its well-preserved medieval interiors, gruesome torture chamber exhibition, and a […]
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