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Almost everyone who travels to Britain wants to visit at least one castle. And Britain,
fortunately, is chock a bloc with castles, fortresses, and palaces of all ages, styles,
and sizes. There are large, royal, venerable fortresses with imposing histories and lavish
interiors, like Windsor in England and Edinburgh in Scotland. There are romantic,
fairytale castles, and private family castles
like Leeds Castle in Kent, or the
Queens Balmoral Castle and Andrew Carnegies Skibo Castle in Scotland. There
are great tottering fortresses that played important rolls in the conquest of Britain like
the Norman castles dotting England (Dover Castle and the Tower of London are famous
examples),
King Edward I’s
foreboding chain of castles (Harlech, Caernarfon, Beaumaris, and Conwy),
stretching around the northwest coast of Wales, and the superb Stirling
Castle in Scotland. |
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