FROM SCOTTISH CASTLES TO SAMURAI STRONGHOLDS From Europe to Japan, from modern California to the biblical Holy Land, this book explores castles, keeps, fortifications, strongholds, towers, and citadels from the ancient world up to the 20th century. Find out about Windsor Castle, the longest-occupied royal residence in Europe, built originally to impose Norman rule over the Thames valley and today a venue for royal weddings; David’s Citadel, a 2,000 year-old tower near the Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem; Osaka Castle, Japan, a 17th-century symbol of the Tokugawa shogunate’s power and prestige and today engulfed by the modern city of Osaka; and Hohenzollern Castle, Germany, seat of Prussia’s famous royal house and a monument to 19th-century Romantic tastes. Built, rebuilt, and expanded many times, castles offer us layers of history—and often mystery, too. With 200 outstanding color photographs,
Castles of the World
is a beautiful examination of past worlds.