From the Mongols to the Tsars, Russia has been a significant player on the world's stage and Russian palaces and forts are a ...

However, many people might be unaware of a beautiful and underrated town that also happens to be home to Spain’s oldest castle. Sitting in the hills of Jaén, southern Spain, the town of Baños ...

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This doesn't account for ruins or lost castles. However, identifying the world's oldest and largest inhabited castle is straightforward - and it's just a stone's throw from London. By 1086 ...

This number also doesn't include ruins or castles that are no longer with us. However, when it comes to the oldest and the largest uninhabited castle in the world, that's easy to pinpoint - and it ...

Created in the year c.3000 BCE, the Citadel of Aleppo, located in Aleppo, Syria is the oldest and largest castle in the world. Built atop a hill in Aleppo, the castle was declared a UNESCO World ...

Hidden beneath the floorboards of one of Europe’s oldest castles, a vanilla pod sat buried in a mixture of dirt and rubble. While it might not seem like anything out of the ordinary, this pod ...

Photo by J. Irmišová et al. (2025.) Hidden beneath the floorboards of one of Europe’s oldest castles, a vanilla pod sat buried in a mixture of dirt and rubble. While it might not seem like ...