Castles of the World — 2,400 castles, fortresses & palaces
Castles of the World — 2,400 castles, fortresses & palaces
A curated, hand-checked dataset of the world's 2,400 great castles, fortresses, palaces and ruins across 131 countries — every landmark verified to have exact coordinates, a real Wikimedia Commons photo and an English Wikipedia article. Fields: Wikidata QID, name, category (castle/fortress/palace/ruin), country, ISO 3166-1 code, WGS84 coordinates, founding year and century, English Wikipedia URL, Commons photo URL, Wikipedia sitelink count, annual pageviews and a global fame rank (rank 1 = Palace of Versailles). This is the exact dataset behind the free interactive map at thecastlemap.com. Documentation, downloads and a live MCP query endpoint: thecastlemap.com/data/. Curated from Wikidata (CC0); photos and Wikipedia texts referenced by URL remain under their own licenses.
Wikidata, palaces, fortresses, GeoJSON, points of interest, open data, history, cultural heritage, castles, geospatial
Wikidata, palaces, fortresses, GeoJSON, points of interest, open data, history, cultural heritage, castles, geospatial
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