No Marienburg/Malbork? Only the largest brick castle in the world? And the history behind it? By excluding it you invalidate the whole list. Seriously :(
I went to Portugal last year and i visited its castels and there are so many and all georgeous! I recomend to visit specifically Sintra, Porto or even Lisbon!
Howbout Predjama Castle, Slovenia which is built inside a cliff rock. I've been there and its gorgeous! Looks small from the outside but massive on the inside.
Edinburgh Castle is iconic but Stirling Castle is better than Edinburgh Castle. Also in Scotland you can find the stunning Holyrood Palace, Linlithgow Palace, Scone Palace, Dunnottar Castle, Crathes Castle, Castle Urquhart, Dunrobin Castle and Eilean Donan Castle. Yeh, we've got quite alot of castles :P
I'm German (just for the record), and it's a mystery to me just how totally overlooked this majestic castle and the town (city?) of Segovia actually is. (I guess I should call it a city since it has such a splendid cathedral.) It should be one of the most famous castles in Europe, and yet noone in my large set of friends and acquaintances has ever heard of it. They are totally awestruck when I take them on a tour of Segovia via Google Street View and the pictures of my recent visit. There are a lot of much less impressive castles that are better known without a busy tourism board promoting their existence. Maybe you should take a cattle prod to the Segovian tourist office so they do some more efficient advertising for this beautiful city and castle. But this is true for the Spanish heartland in general: Lots of spectacular tourist sites but no tourists, since noone knows about them. I have no idea why that is, but I think the Spanish heartland is the most underrated tourist destination in Europe and it's about time Spanish tourist offices spring into action and show the world that there is much more to Spain than the Costa del Sol, where you can roast in the sun and get skin cancer after you won the battle of the deckchairs against the Brits. I remember there was one such effort a few years ago but it was totally ineffective since it showed nothing more but the colours of the Spanish flag. I wonder what advertiser got millions for that crackpot idea! Sorry for writing such a long sermon, but this has been on my mind for a long time.
@@winnietheshrew2957 I have mixed feelings regarding that. On one hand the recognition for that castle and other beautiful sites would be nice but on the other hand, we already have over 80 million tourist a year here in Spain, and we are 47 million people.
Some honorable mentions: Burg Eltz (Germany, ua-cam.com/video/uD9b7mP6whk/v-deo.htmlm24s) and Predjama Castle (Slovenia, ua-cam.com/video/HCbM9ZGSC-0/v-deo.html)
Have you visited festing königstein and whats left of felsenburg neurathen(behind the bastei bridge)? They are underrated as pictures don't do them justice. Königstein is 2km around, making the 40m cliffs/walls look alot smaller from birds view than they really are, you have to walk the guards path around it. Neurathen has no castle left as it was built from wood, but the fact people built a castle in THAT location in the 1200s is crazy. You would call it unrealistic if you saw it in a movie.
@@laurean5998 Festung Königstein truly is underrated. It is by far one of the most impressive fortresses but it nerver gets mentioned. And Hohenzollern gets completly outshined by Schloss Neuschwahnstein.
I've been fortunate to have traveled quite a lot the past 10 years. On this list, I have visited six... #10 Pena Palace, #6 Tower of London, #5 Prague Castle, #4 Alhambra, #2 Edinburgh Castle, & #1 Neuschwanstein. If I am listing from 6 to 1 (1 being the top), it would be #6 Tower of London, #5 Pena Palace, #4 Prague Castle, #3 Edinburgh Castle, #2 Neuschwanstein, #1 Alhambra. Cheers
i think top 3 should be sintra alhambra and disney of course nb 1!you need to consider the place it was built, the effort, the views, the decorations etc... sintra alhambra and disney are built in a high very high altitude.. way more that edingurgo castle (ive been there). and fact: did u know, that the king who built the sintra castle, also planted that huge forest that we see today?
Okay, I've been to Bran and Tower of London but didn't go in, though I did go inside Alhambra, Neuschwanstein and Prague Castle. Out of those I was told by my brother that Bran isn't really that worth it and in my own opinion, Neuschwanstein isn't either - what's usually not mentioned is that it was never finished and on the inside it's largely still just an empty shell.
I would just like to compliment all the watchmojo narrators who also take the time to pronounce everything correctly! Be it someone’s name, a country or the like.
Not including Malbork castle to the list it's like not including US to top 10 military power ..... you guys do your research before putting stuff out in the web.
Janek River No sorry I have to say that France has a lot of beautiful castles and Alahambra in Spain is amazing too. Schloss Neuschwanstein is worth it to be number 1 but 2-10 aren‘t german
Jack River - I'm German, but I don't share your appraisal. The "Roi Soleil" Louis XIV has laid waste to so many castles in southwestern Germany that they are now just ruins - a mere shadow of their former selves. That includes the famous Heidelberg castle. The rest of Germany, where Louis XIV's armies did not foray into, doesn't have that many castles to show for. Except of course for the spectacular and authentically medieval Wartburg castle. One of the few castles worth visiting still in their medieval splendor is the undestroyed Burg Eltz, but certainly not the non-medieval copy-castle of Neuschwanstein. In terms of medieval castles the United Kingdom and the totally underrated Spanish heartland have so much more to offer than Germany, and in terms of (livable) palaces France is definitely the go-to country. Just my humble opinion.
Addendum/hint: Look up Segovia castle in Spain or the castle of Vianden in Luxemburg. You will be awestruck. Hardly anything there to match that in Germany.
Ludwig II, the builder of the the medieval copy-castle of Neuschwanstein, was a useless spendthrift. In 1871, he sold his kingdom to the Prussians for the Guelph Treasure the Prussians had robbed only a few years before, and he kept all the wealth to himself and did absolutely nothing to improve the dire economic situation of his subjects. At that day and age, Bavaria was the poorhouse of Europe. And yet in Bavaria he has an unswerving following of admirers even to this day. People need their icons, I guess, no matter how hollow and phony they are.
@@Lu-.- no, it's a castle, because in france palace is for those insides cities, and castle for the others, and in french, it's called "Chateau de Versaille" translated to "the Castle of Versaille"
I've done some of these, expectation vs reality is far too real. Visiting some of these is just not for everyone. Crowds, lines, and some are over rated. I am all about exploring places on my own, my way. Now that these are published, chances are it will crowed and not as enjoyable.
Why is Neuschanstein always in those lists and nearly always on top? I don't think it is that great.... Ever heard of Hohenzollern Castle the ancestral seat of the imperial House of Hohenzollern? You know the ancestral seat of the last German Emperor? If you want to add a German castle: check this one out: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hohenzollern_Castle
I wouldn’t call Edinburgh Castle ‘sumptuous’, it’s actually rather austere and bleak. A better choice would have been Windsor Castle, the world’s oldest continuously inhabited castle.
I suppose that lector know nothing about Poland. Shame! Shame! And once more shame! And in my opinion German Castle is the one of the ugliest buildings in Europe.
IDK, Pena palace was a disappointment in person. It's actually not that old, and reminds me of an amusement park version of a castle. I'd say like Disneyland, but Disney looked much better. That and even though it is expensive to get in, it was kind of in disrepair 3 years ago,
No fair competition. Neuschwanstein is a fake castle built at end of 1800 by Ludwid II of Bavaria. It is beautiful but not born a real purpose Defence Castle as the other ones, neither an ancient castle modified to became a palace... It should compete with Kings Palaces and Villas not with other Castles. 😎
There is a difference between a castle and a palace and a chatau... not all of these qualify as castles...
Wawel Castle in Krakow, Poland is really beautiful.
No Marienburg/Malbork? Only the largest brick castle in the world? And the history behind it? By excluding it you invalidate the whole list. Seriously :(
Malbork, ladies and gentelmen?
Yes, Malbork should definitely be on the list. Ovanlinna Castle in Finland too.
You really should stop putting a Spanish accent when pronouncing Portuguese names lol
This woman can not pronounce British names either, Edinburgh for example!
You really should stop bitching.
It isnt a portugese accent, its how you are supposed to say it.
I went to Portugal last year and i visited its castels and there are so many and all georgeous! I recomend to visit specifically Sintra, Porto or even Lisbon!
i visited hohenwerfen castle in 2019, it was simply amazing. the castle itself, the falconry, the history, just wow. i really really recommend this :)
Wawel Castle, Krakow
Finally, seone who can say the names right! 👍 lots of information, love the channel!
Howbout Predjama Castle, Slovenia which is built inside a cliff rock. I've been there and its gorgeous! Looks small from the outside but massive on the inside.
They were all absolutely stunning but the tower of London is my favourite, for the history alone.
I love this list and numbers 1, 2 and 3 are fantastic choices. I would have liked to see one of the famous Welsh castles make the list too
The Alcazar of Segovia in Spain is a authentic medieval castle of the XI century, is a Disney castle real....
Oohhh I'm digging this new channel
What about Segovia's castle?
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Edinburgh Castle is iconic but Stirling Castle is better than Edinburgh Castle.
Also in Scotland you can find the stunning Holyrood Palace, Linlithgow Palace, Scone Palace, Dunnottar Castle, Crathes Castle, Castle Urquhart, Dunrobin Castle and Eilean Donan Castle.
Yeh, we've got quite alot of castles :P
The UK has loads of castles all over the place.
You missed Brodick Castle. But yeah, I enjoyed Stirling Castle more than the more famous Edinburgh Castle.
And El Alcázar de Segovia (Spain)?
I'm German (just for the record), and it's a mystery to me just how totally overlooked this majestic castle and the town (city?) of Segovia actually is. (I guess I should call it a city since it has such a splendid cathedral.)
It should be one of the most famous castles in Europe, and yet noone in my large set of friends and acquaintances has ever heard of it. They are totally awestruck when I take them on a tour of Segovia via Google Street View and the pictures of my recent visit.
There are a lot of much less impressive castles that are better known without a busy tourism board promoting their existence.
Maybe you should take a cattle prod to the Segovian tourist office so they do some more efficient advertising for this beautiful city and castle.
But this is true for the Spanish heartland in general: Lots of spectacular tourist sites but no tourists, since noone knows about them.
I have no idea why that is, but I think the Spanish heartland is the most underrated tourist destination in Europe and it's about time Spanish tourist offices spring into action and show the world that there is much more to Spain than the Costa del Sol, where you can roast in the sun and get skin cancer after you won the battle of the deckchairs against the Brits.
I remember there was one such effort a few years ago but it was totally ineffective since it showed nothing more but the colours of the Spanish flag. I wonder what advertiser got millions for that crackpot idea!
Sorry for writing such a long sermon, but this has been on my mind for a long time.
I live in segovia
@@winnietheshrew2957 I have mixed feelings regarding that. On one hand the recognition for that castle and other beautiful sites would be nice but on the other hand, we already have over 80 million tourist a year here in Spain, and we are 47 million people.
@@gonkaien7181 It's a mixed blessing, that's for sure. I live in a tourist area myself and I'm always relieved when the season is over.
I visited number one
Miramare castle, Trieste .. meraviglioso !
This arent all Castles either..some are palaces and churches!
I love this new channel ♥️
1:44 fun fact : this Castle was the inspiration for the one in The Little Mermaid ! not the one underwater but Eric's
Some honorable mentions: Burg Eltz (Germany, ua-cam.com/video/uD9b7mP6whk/v-deo.htmlm24s) and Predjama Castle (Slovenia, ua-cam.com/video/HCbM9ZGSC-0/v-deo.html)
Napoli Castle in Naples, Italy is an absolute honourable mention :))
I've been to 2 of those castles. Tower of London and the castle in Edinbourgh in Scottland.
I think my favourite castle is hohenzolern in Germany
Have you visited festing königstein and whats left of felsenburg neurathen(behind the bastei bridge)?
They are underrated as pictures don't do them justice. Königstein is 2km around, making the 40m cliffs/walls look alot smaller from birds view than they really are, you have to walk the guards path around it.
Neurathen has no castle left as it was built from wood, but the fact people built a castle in THAT location in the 1200s is crazy. You would call it unrealistic if you saw it in a movie.
@@laurean5998 Festung Königstein truly is underrated. It is by far one of the most impressive fortresses but it nerver gets mentioned.
And Hohenzollern gets completly outshined by Schloss Neuschwahnstein.
Windsor! Warwick! Segovia! Come on.
ian jones Windsor is more of a palace than a castle, Stirling Castle and Eilean Donan are more impressive
I've been fortunate to have traveled quite a lot the past 10 years. On this list, I have visited six... #10 Pena Palace, #6 Tower of London, #5 Prague Castle, #4 Alhambra, #2 Edinburgh Castle, & #1 Neuschwanstein. If I am listing from 6 to 1 (1 being the top), it would be #6 Tower of London, #5 Pena Palace, #4 Prague Castle, #3 Edinburgh Castle, #2 Neuschwanstein, #1 Alhambra. Cheers
Do top 10 man mad landmarks of all time
Nice video and cheers for pronouncing all the foreign names correctly.
nice one!
Check Castel Roncolo near Bolzano .. it houses the best preserved medieval wall paintings of any castle in Europe
Malbork ??? Where is ???
In Romania Peleş Castle is more beautiful and better decorated than Bran
Absolutey, Bran Castle sucks.
@@villanovakid84 It is beautiful but it is not the best.
@@alexandrugheorghiu5647 I think it is ok, but I like Romania, very underrated country.
@@villanovakid84 true .As a Romanian i appreciate your compliments
Vianden - Luxemburg.
Haarzuilen - Netherlands.
The whole of Carcassonne - France.
Hohenzollern and Wartburg - Germany.
the chateau de Pierrefond should definitely be in it
What about Malbork, Poland? It's the biggest castle made only using bricks!
What about chateau de Versailles France?
Not a castle.
@@Fratrix Chenonceau and Neuschwanstein aren't either. Neuschwanstein is a late 19th century fantasy.
Chateau means castle...
If it was a Castles/Palaces yes certainly Versailles would be 2nd or 1st
Benjamin DILLARD doesn’t matter a castle is a fortification Versailles is a palace, just as Windsor castle is a palace
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Sgail castle (North Atlantic) ... worth a visit.
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i think top 3 should be sintra alhambra and disney of course nb 1!you need to consider the place it was built, the effort, the views, the decorations etc... sintra alhambra and disney are built in a high very high altitude.. way more that edingurgo castle (ive been there). and fact: did u know, that the king who built the sintra castle, also planted that huge forest that we see today?
Before i watch the rest of this, i hope Blarney Castle in Cork,Ireland is on this list.
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There are some truly beautiful castles in Ireland. They may not be as large as some of the castles featuring in this video but size isn't everything !
John Conway Eilean donan castle in the highlands of Scotland fits that bill perfectly
hohenzollern castle is a must
It's weird that when you start talking about Prague Castle...it isn't anywhere in the picture you chose (of Old Town Square).
Okay, I've been to Bran and Tower of London but didn't go in, though I did go inside Alhambra, Neuschwanstein and Prague Castle. Out of those I was told by my brother that Bran isn't really that worth it and in my own opinion, Neuschwanstein isn't either - what's usually not mentioned is that it was never finished and on the inside it's largely still just an empty shell.
Neuschwanstein + Edinburgh Castle + Chateau Frontenac in Quebec = Hogwarts
just take a look at Corvin Castle it's literally Hogwarts in real life.
Durham castle and Bambrugh are missing here….
You should have put Rakvere castle in Estonia in it too
I would just like to compliment all the watchmojo narrators who also take the time to pronounce everything correctly! Be it someone’s name, a country or the like.
Castel del Monte?
0:01 Around 100 Million Americans is related to King John of England and a majority of Europeans has are the descendants of some kings
"Burg Hohenzollern", the Nr. 2 in Germany after Neuschwanstein is missed!
Not including Malbork castle to the list it's like not including US to top 10 military power ..... you guys do your research before putting stuff out in the web.
6:22 Yes! I... I mean, *YES!!!*
If we re honest, places 1 to 10 have to be german castles.....
Janek River No sorry I have to say that France has a lot of beautiful castles and Alahambra in Spain is amazing too. Schloss Neuschwanstein is worth it to be number 1 but 2-10 aren‘t german
@@hansheinrich958 Germany have best Castles and France have more palaces
Jack River - I'm German, but I don't share your appraisal. The "Roi Soleil" Louis XIV has laid waste to so many castles in southwestern Germany that they are now just ruins - a mere shadow of their former selves. That includes the famous Heidelberg castle. The rest of Germany, where Louis XIV's armies did not foray into, doesn't have that many castles to show for. Except of course for the spectacular and authentically medieval Wartburg castle. One of the few castles worth visiting still in their medieval splendor is the undestroyed Burg Eltz, but certainly not the non-medieval copy-castle of Neuschwanstein.
In terms of medieval castles the United Kingdom and the totally underrated Spanish heartland have so much more to offer than Germany, and in terms of (livable) palaces France is definitely the go-to country. Just my humble opinion.
Addendum/hint: Look up Segovia castle in Spain or the castle of Vianden in Luxemburg. You will be awestruck. Hardly anything there to match that in Germany.
@@user-dl1xz3mj3i Wrogn France has a bunch of Castle, search for "Chateaux de La Loire"
How about top 10 views from castles
Where is Malbork ??
Wait a minute......Where is the Spis castle from Slovakia?!
5:25..Ill call boobs mojo from now onwards
Where is Festung hohen Salzburg (Austria)
For me a real castle is one which is actually built to defend like eg. Hohenwerfen.
Ludwig II, the builder of the the medieval copy-castle of Neuschwanstein, was a useless spendthrift. In 1871, he sold his kingdom to the Prussians for the Guelph Treasure the Prussians had robbed only a few years before, and he kept all the wealth to himself and did absolutely nothing to improve the dire economic situation of his subjects. At that day and age, Bavaria was the poorhouse of Europe. And yet in Bavaria he has an unswerving following of admirers even to this day. People need their icons, I guess, no matter how hollow and phony they are.
9) im pretty sure thats the castle that The BO3 Zombie map Der Eisendrache ia based on
They may not be as iconic or have as much history, but you could do a video on the castles in North America.
Why i see leiria castle churchs in palacio da pena.....
Americanos...
No Orava or Stara Lubovna castles from Slovakia
You could do a top 10 video with just United Kingdom castles, there is that many.
Do you even know what the word "castle" means?
Versaille?????!
palace
@@Lu-.- no, it's a castle, because in france palace is for those insides cities, and castle for the others, and in french, it's called "Chateau de Versaille" translated to "the Castle of Versaille"
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I've done some of these, expectation vs reality is far too real. Visiting some of these is just not for everyone. Crowds, lines, and some are over rated. I am all about exploring places on my own, my way. Now that these are published, chances are it will crowed and not as enjoyable.
Why is Neuschanstein always in those lists and nearly always on top?
I don't think it is that great....
Ever heard of Hohenzollern Castle the ancestral seat of the imperial House of Hohenzollern? You know the ancestral seat of the last German Emperor?
If you want to add a German castle: check this one out: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hohenzollern_Castle
main stream list:(
Why nothing italian
No. I don't think this list have the proper list of best castles, palaces. This might not be in american tourist favourites...
I wouldn’t call Edinburgh Castle ‘sumptuous’, it’s actually rather austere and bleak. A better choice would have been Windsor Castle, the world’s oldest continuously inhabited castle.
Where's Hogwarts?
I suppose that lector know nothing about Poland. Shame! Shame! And once more shame! And in my opinion German Castle is the one of the ugliest buildings in Europe.
With aluminum foil (foil). Sorry...
Discrimination against Poles!
....
Bullshit. Versailles if the best castle in the world and by far
IDK, Pena palace was a disappointment in person. It's actually not that old, and reminds me of an amusement park version of a castle. I'd say like Disneyland, but Disney looked much better. That and even though it is expensive to get in, it was kind of in disrepair 3 years ago,
No fair competition. Neuschwanstein is a fake castle built at end of 1800 by Ludwid II of Bavaria. It is beautiful but not born a real purpose Defence Castle as the other ones, neither an ancient castle modified to became a palace... It should compete with Kings Palaces and Villas not with other Castles. 😎
*Every castle in Germany*