Windsor Castle

Title: Windsor Castle Category: Regional Search / Europe / United Kingdom / England (Great Britain) / Berkshire / Windsor / Attractions / Historic Buildings, Homes & Castles Crossed to: Historic Buildings, Homes & Castles Clicks: 15 Listing added: Dec 2, 2008 PageRank: Not available Comments: 0

Windsor Castle is an official residence of The Queen and the largest occupied castle in the world. A Royal home and fortress for over 900 years, the Castle remains a working palace today. Visitors can walk around the State Apartments, extensive suites of rooms at the heart of the working palace. For part of the year visitors can also see the Semi State rooms, which are some of the most splendid interiors in the castle. They are furnished with treasures from the Royal Collection including paintings by Holbein, Rubens, Van Dyck and Lawrence, fine tapestries and porcelain, sculpture and armour. Within the Castle complex there are many additional attractions, including the Drawings Gallery, Queen Mary's dolls' house, and the fourteenth-century St. George's Chapel, the burial place of ten sovereigns and setting for many Royal weddings.