Free Castle Pictures: 31 Photos of Castles, Palaces and Fortresses

31 free castle pictures from the BigFoto library: the fairy-tale Neuschwanstein Castle in the Bavarian Alps and its neighbour Hohenschwangau, the royal palaces of Versailles, Munich, Vienna and Istanbul, and old fortresses from Lake Geneva to London, Rome, Cairo and the coast of Ghana.

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Neuschwanstein and Hohenschwangau

King Ludwig II of Bavaria began Neuschwanstein in 1869 on a crag above the Pöllat gorge; it opened to visitors weeks after his death in 1886 and is now one of the most visited castles in Europe. Yellow Hohenschwangau, where he grew up, stands on the hill opposite.

Royal palaces

Versailles with its gardens and the royal bedchamber, Nymphenburg in Munich, Schönbrunn and the Hofburg in Vienna, and the Topkapi Palace of the Ottoman sultans above the Bosphorus.

Fortresses and old castles

Chillon Castle on Lake Geneva, the Tower of London, Castel Sant’Angelo on the Tiber in Rome, the Citadel of Saladin in Cairo and the cannons of a fort on the coast of Ghana.

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Can I use them for a school project about castles?

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