The Santa Maria in Calanca castle ruins are located on a hill top at the entrance to the Calanca valley. The hill top was inh ...
By the 12th or 13th century the Lords of Wimmis or Strättligen built Wimmis Castle above the village. The exact relationship ...
Chateau des Clées is located above the village. Built probably in the 11th century, it guarded the traffic through the Joug ...
The Compesières Commandry is the main Commandry of the Order of Malta in the Canton of Geneva in Switzerland. The v ...
Alt-Regensberg Castle was built about the mid-11th century AD by the House of Regensberg in the municipality of Regensdor ...
Right at the top of the Wartenberg near Muttenz there are three castle ruins which can be visited. Archaeological findings pr ...
Hohenrätien Castle was built on a rock wall that rises 250 m above the Viamala river and the important roads over the San Be ...
During the Middle Ages, Wil Castle was built near the village and it became the seat of the Herrschaft of Schlosswil. The lo ...
Gorgier Castle was first time mentioned in 1299. It was owned by the lords of Estavayer and Neuchâtel. The drawbridge, dit ...
Wyher Castle is a moated castle, which lies south of the village center of Ettiswil. It was first mentioned in 1304 as the ho ...
Valangin castle was a residence of the local lords from mid-12th century to 1566. The oldest visible remains date from the 13 ...
Alt-Wartburg Castle was built around c. 1200 by the lords of Ifenthal. It was significanly extended in 1325. In the mid-14th ...
The fortifications at Castelmur may be, after the Three Castles of Bellinzona, the most important example of medieval valley ...
Amsoldingen Castle and the neighboring was built in the 10th century. The castle was built as the residence of the wealthy pr ...
The ruins of Illens castle stand on a rock wall above a loop of the Saane river. The castle stands on the opposite side of t ...
Strättligen Castle was built by the barons of Strättligen in the 13th century. Today the ruins are well-preserved with a po ...
Böttstein Castle was built in the 12th century for the Barons of Böttstein. After the extinction of the Böttstein line, th ...
Baldenstein Castle was the family castle for the Knights of Baldenstein, the first of which was mentioned in 1246. The centra ...
The name of the rulers of the Trachselwald Castle was first mentioned in 1131. The castle itself may date back to the 10th ce ...
Jörgenberg Castle was built in the 8th century as a fortified church, on lands donated by the Frankish kings. In the 765 t ...