The climb to the top rewards with magnificent vistas and a peek inside the old castle.
Tucked inside the warren of rooms in the old castle keep, for instance, is a lively bustle of industry: women working bobbins, hand-sewing, laundering.
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.
However, the end of the real-estate boom and the nine years of economic slump since then have turned the old castle saying on its head.
Madonna and movie producer Guy Richie tied the knot in the century-old Skibo Castle in Scotland.
Downstairs is a large candlelit Valhalla, like something out of an old Bavarian castle, and the roof has a small bar and big views of the Manhattan skyline across the East River.
The Nick Faldo design anchors a full service luxury golf resort that also has a second nondescript 40-year old course (Castle Hume).
Edinburgh is home to two Unesco World Heritage Sites separated by the steep-sided greenery of the Princes Street Gardens: the Old Town with its imposing Castle Rock and Royal Mile, and the New Town, just a bit younger than Old Town, with a posh Georgian grid laid out in the late 18th and early 19th Centuries.
He has installed sculptures around the village and every July sponsors an opera and theatre festival in the old quarries next to the castle.
"I'm trying to rethink the concept, " explains Mille, a balding, irrepressible 57-year-old who lives in a French castle and for kicks drives a 1979 Tyrrell Formula One.
Even without golf, the beaches, cliffs, harbour, medieval castle, ruined cathedral and old university buildings would make St Andrews an attractive tourist destination.
Be Sure To: Visit Peckforton Castle, a 170-year-old estate with a thriving falconry school.
The crown, sword and sceptre were always present during meetings of the old Scots Parliament and have been on display in Edinburgh Castle since 1819.
Europe has a smattering of centuries-old citadels up for grabs, including a 14-bedroom medieval castle nestled in the hills of Umbria in Italy.
Near the top, a path broke off and led to a flat open plot, where the castle should have been, but, save for an old stone wall, there were no ruins to be seen.
Knappogue Castle 1951: Also known as the 36-year old, based on when it was bottled, this is simply the oldest, rarest and most collectible Irish whiskey available, and comes in an ornate wooden chest.
In his army days he had bought a house in Oxfordshire, and preferred it to the edifices he eventually inherited in 1975 as duke of Norfolk, particularly Arundel Castle in Sussex, the ducal seat, nearly 1, 000 years old, brimming with history, but mostly comfortless.
So, with just a few hours left before Vaclav Klaus leaves Prague Castle (there's even a website, Klaus Countdown), the old battle lines are being drawn.
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