hilltop castle is a type of hill castle that was built on the summit of a hill or mountain. In the latter case it may be termed a mountaintop castle....

Castle (姫路城, Himeji-jō) ([çimeʑiꜜʑoː] ) is a hilltop Japanese castle complex situated in Himeji, a city in the Hyōgo Prefecture of Japan. The castle is...

Hohenzollern Castle (German: Burg Hohenzollern [bʊʁk hoːənˈtsɔlɐn] ) is the ancestral seat of the imperial House of Hohenzollern. The third of three hilltop castles...

Frankenstein Castle (German: Burg Frankenstein) is a hilltop castle in the Odenwald overlooking the city of Darmstadt in Germany. This castle may have been...

following: Hilltop castle (Gipfelburg), that stands on the summit of a hill with steep drops on all sides. A special type is the rock castle or Felsenburg...

filled wells, and a leveled hilltop or a series of terraces, will provide evidence of the original layout of the castle. Whether their buildings are...

Wirtemberg Castle, a ruined hilltop castle, is the second family seat of the House of Württemberg, whose ancestors had abandoned Beutelsbach Castle (also known...

The Nürburg is a ruined hilltop castle in the German Eifel Mountains near the village of Nürburg south of Adenau in the district of Ahrweiler in the state...

were used. The advantage of a hillside castle was that its well was much less deep than that of a hilltop castle. The boring of the well was often the...

the Lords of Säben built Branzoll castle at the entrance to the hilltop episcopal castle. Presently, the hilltop castle consists of a small inner bailey...

mountain. Cefnllys Castle in Wales, is a series of 2 castles in Wales. Castle Hill castle Hillside castle Hilltop castle Ridge castle The Oxford Encyclopedia...

Frankenstein Castle, Hesse, a 13th-century hilltop castle near Darmstadt, Germany, speculated to be the eponym for Shelley's novel Frankenstein Castle, Palatinate...

Tsuruga Castle (鶴ヶ城, Tsuru-ga-jō), also known as Aizuwakamatsu Castle (会津若松城 Aizu-Wakamatsu-jō) is a Japanese castle in northern Japan, at the center of...

Vaduz, the capital of Liechtenstein, which it overlooks from an adjacent hilltop. The former owners, who were presumably also the builders, were the counts...

and Moselle Stolzenfels Castle, near Koblenz, the epitome of the Rhine romanticism Marksburg Castle, the only hilltop castle in the Middle Rhine Valley...

Novigrad Castle, locally called "Fortica" is a ruined hilltop castle above village of Novigrad in Zadar County, Croatia. It is considered that during...

Castle (熊本城, Kumamoto-jō) is a hilltop Japanese castle located in Chūō-ku, Kumamoto, in Kumamoto Prefecture. It was a large and well-fortified castle...

carrying its name on a hilltop about a mile southwest of Monea Castle in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. Tullykelter Castle is now in ruins with heavy...

protecting it and its ancient hilltop castle. King Francis II of the Two Sicilies died here in 1894. The Castello di Arco, medieval castle Sanctuary and convent...

one of Japan's three major hirayama (平山城 hilltop) style castles along with Himeji Castle and Matsuyama Castle, which were all constructed around the same...

Kōchi Castle (高知城, Kōchi-jō) is an Edo Period Japanese castle in the city of Kōchi, Kōchi Prefecture, Japan. It is located at Otakayama hill, at the center...

Cave castle Hill castle Hillfort Hillside castle Hilltop castle Island castle Lowland castle Marsh castle Moated castle Promontory fort Ridge castle Rocca...

Najima Castle (名島城, Najima-jō) is a hilltop castle, located in Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. Today, only its ruins still stand. Najima Castle was...

Ronneburg Castle (German: Burg Ronneburg) is a castle in Ronneburg in the Main-Kinzig district of Hesse, Germany. It is a hilltop castle situated near...

Drégely Castle (Hungarian: Drégely vára) is a 13th-century hilltop castle in Nógrád County, Hungary. It is in ruins, but being restored. The ruin of Drégely...

designated as National Treasures. Matsumoto Castle is a flatland castle 平城 (hirajiro) because it is not built on a hilltop or amid rivers, but on a plain. Its...

Nirayama Castle (韮山城, Nirayama-jō) is a hilltop castle, now largely ruins, built by Hōjō Sōun in the Izu Province in 1493. Originally, Sōun had his main...

Eisenberg Castle is a medieval hilltop castle ruin north of Pfronten, Bavaria, Germany built in the 14th century. Eisenburg Castle was built in 1313, when...

Wakayama Castle (和歌山城, Wakayama-jō) is a Japanese castle located in the city Wakayama, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. For most of the Edo Period, it was...

Kadifekale (literally "the velvet castle" in Turkish) is a hilltop castle in İzmir, Turkey. The castle is located on the Mount Pagos (Greek: Πάγος, Pagus...