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Castle Map

The world's great castles, fortresses, palaces and ruins on one interactive map —

For agents: Interactive world map of 9,035 castles, fortresses and palaces with rankings by fame, age and country, day-trip guides and a castle guessing game.

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# Castle Map

> The world's great castles, fortresses, palaces and ruins on one interactive map —
> 9,035 landmarks across 155 countries. Every one has a photo, coordinates and
> a link to its Wikipedia article (English where it exists; the atlas also
> reads 26 other Wikipedia language editions). 7,406 of them carry a founding
> year, the other 1,629 are undated. 9,019 open with a summary from Wikipedia;
> the rest with a description built from the data. Where the only article is in
> another language, the summary is machine-translated into English and says so.

Every landmark has a static, citable page at /castles/<slug>/ with a facts
table and schema.org JSON-LD (TouristAttraction + LandmarksOrHistoricalBuildings).
Country pages at /countries/<slug>/ list every landmark in that country.
City pages at /castles/near/<city>/ list every landmark within 100 km of a
city centre with straight-line distance and compass direction — 407 cities.

The tree is mirrored in seven more languages under a path prefix: Japanese
/ja/, German /de/, Spanish /es/, French /fr/, Polish /pl/, Dutch /nl/ and
Ukrainian /uk/. Every castle, country, city, ranking and section page exists in
all seven, with the landmark name and story taken from that language’s own
Wikipedia where an article exists. Three things are English-only: the castle
routes under /castles/routes/, /privacy/ and /embed/; and the localized
/changelog/ pages carry the English entries.

- [Interactive map](https://thecastlemap.com/)
- [CastleGuessr — free castle game: pin the castle on the world map, scored by distance](https://thecastlemap.com/guess/)
- [All 9,035 castles](https://thecastlemap.com/castles/)
- [Castles by country](https://thecastlemap.com/countries/)
- [Castles near you — day-trip guides for 407 cities, every castle within 100 km](https://thecastlemap.com/castles/near/)
- [All rankings in one place — fame & age; world, country, category](https://thecastlemap.com/castles/rankings/)
- [Most famous castles in the world — all 9,035 ranked](https://thecastlemap.com/castles/ranked/)
- [The most famous castle in every country — one per country, ranked](https://thecastlemap.com/castles/most-famous-by-country/)
- [Oldest castles in the world — every dated landmark ranked by founding year](https://thecastlemap.com/castles/oldest/)
- [The oldest castle in every country — one national champion per country](https://thecastlemap.com/castles/oldest-by-country/)
- [Medieval castles of the world — every landmark founded in the Middle Ages, c. 500–1500](https://thecastlemap.com/castles/medieval/)
- [Castles by region — the Loire Valley, the Middle Rhine, Andalusia, Transylvania, Kansai and more](https://thecastlemap.com/castles/regions/)
- [How many castles are there? — per country: what this atlas maps, what Wikidata holds, what published sources say](https://thecastlemap.com/castles/how-many/)
- [Castle statistics — which country has the most, per-capita leaders, foun
…

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