Showing posts with label castle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label castle. Show all posts

Saturday, 28 July 2012

Let The Games Begin!!!


The Temple of Kukulkan or Pyramid of Kukulkan, Cancun, Mexico, is also known by the name "El Castello", a term that was used by the Spaniards in the sixteenth century, seeking some architectural similarity known in the European continent. The current temple was built in the XII century AD , by the Maya Itzaes in the ancient city of Chichen Itza, originally founded by the  Maya in the VI century AD.

Taken by  i35mmporvida


Saturday, 17 December 2011

Castell Dinas Bran


The most reliable sources state that Gruffydd Maelor II, son of Madog ap Gruffydd Maelor I, began the castle in the late 1260's. The elder Madog founded nearby Valle Crucis Abbey, where both men were buried. Some references offer an earlier date for the castle, placing it in the 1230's, when Madog would have been alive and, therefore, its builder. Regardless of whom actually erected the buildings that now survive in ruin, they were part of the last building effort at Dinas Bran. Incredibly, assuming the later date to be most accurate, the Welsh princes only occupied the site for two decades. During those final two decades, the castle on the hilltop became a prized possession of the princes of Powys Fadog. Dinas Bran's power did not go unnoticed by English forces. In 1277, during Edward I's initial foray into Wales, the Earl of Lincoln, Henry de Lacy, besieged the castle. The Welsh lord of Dinas Bran was forced to submit to the invading army, which promptly set the site afire, completely destroying it. Taken in Wales by tedesco57

Friday, 24 September 2010