Galicia, Spain
3900 BCE
Ardales, Spain
9th century AD
Tordoya, Spain
3000 BCE
Magacela, Spain
3500-2000 BCE
Alaior, Spain
1700 BCE
Ciutadella de Menorca, Spain
1000 BCE
Olocau, Spain
5th century BCE
Valencia de Alcántara, Spain
4000-3000 BCE
Alaior, Spain
1000 BCE
Villar de la Yegua, Spain
18000 BCE
Yecla, Spain
11th century
Berbinzana, Spain
6th century BCE
Ciutadella de Menorca, Spain
1600-1200 BCE
Es Castell, Spain
1000 BCE
Alaior, Spain
1000-700 BCE
Baena, Spain
1st century BCE
Portmán, Spain
1st century BCE
San Roque, Spain
940 BCE
Ciutadella de Menorca, Spain
1000-700 BCE
Mahón, Spain
1000 BCE
Château de Niort is a medieval castle in the French town of Niort. It consists of two square towers, linked by a 15th-century building and dominates the Sèvre Niortaise valley.
The two donjons are the only remaining part of the castle. The castle was started by Henry II Plantagenet in the 12th century and completed by Richard the Lionheart. It was defended by a rectangular curtain wall and was damaged during the Wars of Religion. In the 18th century, the castle served as a prison.
The present keeps were the central point of a massive fortress. The southern keep is 28m tall, reinforced with turrets. The northern tower is slightly shorter at 23m. Both are flanked with circular turrets at the corners as well as semicircular buttresses. Each of the towers has a spiral staircase serving the upper floors. The Romanesque architecture is of a high quality with the dressed stones closely jointed.