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Akiramenai
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posted 05-22-2003 12:34 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Akiramenai   Click Here to Email Akiramenai     Edit/Delete Message
I'm an eight grader with a problem! My teacher assigned the class diffrent things from the middle ages to study and present, and I volenteered for castles, I luv castles, but I need to find out the four largest, still standing castles that were built in the middle ages. Help! PLEASE!
~Akiramenai

ipflo
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posted 05-22-2003 01:40 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for ipflo   Click Here to Email ipflo     Edit/Delete Message
hi

well according to the guinnes book of records is Castle of Prague the largest:


Largest Ancient Castle
The largest ancient castle in the world is Prague Castle in Prague, Czech Republic, built in the 9th century. It is an oblong irregular polygon with an average diameter of 128 m (420 ft), giving a total surface area of 7.28 hectares (18 acres).

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/index.asp?id=50103


It also says that Windsor Castle is the largest inhabited castle:


Largest Inhabited Castle
The royal residence of Windsor Castle at Windsor, Berkshire, UK, is originally of 12th-century construction and is in the form of a waisted parallelogram measuring 576.164 m (1,890.540 ft) all around.


http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/index.asp?id=50101


So now we only have to find two other large castles from the middle ages. I think the Kremlin in Moscow (Russia) is a good candidate and an other one would be possible Bernburg in Germany, or Höhkönigsburg in France of Burghausen in Germany (which at least is the longest castle of the world).

maybe some other members have also suggestions

Merlin
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posted 05-23-2003 10:41 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Merlin   Click Here to Email Merlin     Edit/Delete Message
You'll never find out which ones are definitely the four largest castles in the world. The Hradschin of Prague may be the largest castle still intact, but there are many larger ones in ruins in Spain, Italy and France or even Syria and Israel.

All times are PT (US)

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