For the 100th we wanted the quintessential 'Castle' show -- something that was fun, something with great Castle-Beckett stuff in it.
This 117-year-old castle-like hostelry in the Canadian Rockies looks and feels like the maze-like fictional school of witchcraft and wizardry from the Harry Potter books.
The American my-home-is-my-castle mentality is enshrined in the tax code.
Though the number of castles sold worldwide is minuscule compared to the overall real estate market, it has increased in recent years, thanks to the rising wealth of buyers, increased visibility--there are several castle-specific Web sites out there--and general enthusiasm for real estate.
For something slightly less conventional but still very aristocratic, stroll among a Dutch windmill, a Chinese pagoda and a gothic castle -- all of which can be found in Parc Monceau, which was constructed by the eccentric Duc de Chartres as his private garden in the 18th Century.
Over the last four years 5, 800 pubs - like the Castle - have closed down.
Developers should also provide equal incentives for players to engage in one-on-one combat, a large-scale siege of a castle or large-scale battles for territory.
The academics and the students on the leafy Gothic campus, with its ivy-covered dormitories and castle-like towers, also made her feel out of place.
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The digs: A 9, 655-square-foot castle with 6 bedrooms and 90-foot pool built atop a 99-foot lot.
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The house is one of the Dali triad that includes the Dali Theatre-Museum in Figueres and the Gala Dali Castle-House Museum in Pubol, but Portlligat is where the famous Surrealist lived from 1930 to 1982 and where he created works like The Madonna of Portlligat.
On the high point of the first, Edburton Hill, are the earthworks of a motte-and-bailey castle, which in spring and early summer are a knee-high wildflower meadow: agrimony, wild mignonette, red clover, yellow rattle, marjoram, scabious, knapweed and the odd tall bolt of fireweed, through all of which wander string-like stems of bindweed.
He spent a few years renovating the rundown 28-room, 10, 000-square-foot castle before putting it back on the market in 2009 and selling it.
The massive castle-like structure was the early 20th-century home of Daniel Guggenheim (brother of the noted modern art enthusiast Solomon R Guggenheim).
The children built a castle, of course, but castle-building is rather poor fun when you have no hope of the swishing tide ever coming in to fill up the moat and wash away the drawbridge, and, at the happy last, to wet everybody up to the waist at least.
Founded in 1891 as a sanatorium by Dr Ingebrigt Christian Lund, the castle-like Holmenkollen Park Hotel Rica offers great views and good-value luxury accommodation.
More than 300, 000 tonnes of freight was flown in and out of the Castle Donington-based airport during 2010.
At the very start of Parramatta Road, the castle-like buildings of Sydney University were modeled on London's Westminster Abbey.
Ensconced in this timeless setting, the world around feels as remote as it must have done to medieval castle-dwellers.
Everything else is new, including the posh clubhouse, and luxury hotel with rooms scattered in little castle-like villas around the lakefront property.
So it was just a matter of time before someone like Hirano Yuito came along with an obvious if radical idea: sell the company castle - sort of.
For them Roger DeClements, America's castle-building authority, stands ready.
Just 45 minutes from Beirut is Byblos, a historic coastal city with stunning ancient Roman ruins and a well-preserved Crusader-era castle.
The men, who were badly burned and weren't identified, were found on a bed inside a bedroom of a ground-floor apartment in the 10-story tower on Story Avenue in the Castle Hill neighborhood, a law-enforcement official said.
Revivals of any sort--from White Castle hamburgers to the Ford T-Bird--carry a high risk.
Last year South Africa beat Madagascar 1-0 in Durban in a World Cup warm-up and then narrowly edged the islanders in a penalty shootout in a Cosafa Castle Cup quarter-final tie played at Port Elizabeth.
The Proms in the Park series will include two new venues - Centre Square, Middlesbrough, and Carrickfergus Castle, Northern Ireland - in addition to concerts in Swansea, Glasgow and London.
In creating his "fungus accretion" vases, Simon brushed the rough surface of a ceramic vase with a clay-and-water solution until it built upon itself like a hand-dripped sand castle.
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The whimsical, faux-Gothic Santa Caterina Castle in Porto is a fabulously over-the-top hideaway set in a palm-shaded garden decorated with azulejo.
Which brings me to Heidelberg, a city steeped in the past--its famous castle and university date back to the eleventh century--but which offers an intriguing glimpse of the future.
The 18th-century landscaping, gardens and canal, the 19th-century plantations and vistas, and the neo-Gothic castle of Studley Royal Park, make this an outstanding site.
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