The castle of Mont Saint-Michel is located on Mont-Saint-Michel in Normandy, in the department of Manche. A historical monument, the site appears since 1979 on the World Heritage List of UNESCO and is managed by the Center of National Monuments. It is often compared to the seven wonders of the world.     Unlike other castles in France which started in "career" playing the role of defensive structures or sites dedicated to art, Mont St. Michel was ...

  Miramare Castle was built on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea near Trieste, Italy in the nineteenth century for Austrian Archduke Maximilian and his wife's signature architect Carl Junker.     It is said that this castle who sleeps in at least one night will be part of a brutal death. This legend gave credence to history because in 1864 Archduke Maximilian stopped one night in the castle, on his way to Mexico where she would be crowned, but ...