Top 100 of medieval castles

The top 100 of medieval castles

In Europe and Asia more than 10.000 medieval castles can be found. Topcastles.com selected the most beautiful and interesting castles and ranked them in a top 100 list. The construction of this list is explained in the menu background. You can contribute by voting on your favorite castles: find the castle, click on it and submit your rating. At the end of a year all ratings will be added to the top 100 list. The total list contains 976 castles. This makes it possible to show toplists per country or region.

New list for 2009

14.730 ratings of 7.493 visitors of this site of 2007 and 2008 are added to the top 100 list for 2009. Besides that 16 new sources have been added to calculate the top 100 scores. Also 42 castles have been added, mainly from Eastern Europe and Scandinavia. These are the top ten of the new list:

Rate your favorite castle for the top 100

Every square picture of a castle on this site links to the information page of that castles. In the sitebar left you can rate the castle with a score from 1 to 10. The rating of the castle is used to create the top 100 list. These castles have not been rated yet. The castles with the highest ratings are listed separately in the visitors top 100. The pictures below represent the top ten castles of this list:

Lists per country, castle type and more

The database of this site contains 976 castles. In the menu "search" you can query this database and create your own list of topcastles. The menu "per country" contains a selection of topcastles per country and area and even a list top-castle countries and regions. The menu "per type" lists the topcastles per castle type. The pictures below represent the top ten castles of the Netherlands: