Chateau Laroche—known to locals as Loveland Castle—rises from the Ohio landscape like a fever dream, a stone fortress that would look more at home in the European countryside than the American Midwest ...
In the riverside town of Vidin in Bulgaria, I was briefly king of the castle. I had the medieval citadel to myself. Looming over the Danube, the fortress was known for centuries as the guardhouse to ...
The Medieval period, often idealized in movies ... While knights in shining armor and grand castles charm our imaginations, ...