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In the mid-1480s, Erasmus took refuge in Predjama Castle after killing Count Pappenheim in a controversial duel. Habsburg Emperor Frederick III ordered a siege, but Erasmus held out for over a year, ...

A cliffside Slovenian castle sits on not just a network of secret caves that hid an infamously swashbuckling knight—who successfully held off a full offensive by the Holy Roman Empire for more than a ...

Some sit proudly on cliffs or above rivers, others have been absorbed into towns, their towers peeking over rooftops. Together, they trace the country’s layered history: medieval frontiers, Habsburg ...

Predjama castle in central Slovenia looks more like something out of Game of Thrones or a Studio Ghibli film than something in, y’know, the real world. Built into a sheer cliff face, it appears to be ...