Century

Castles: 15th century

Sites dated to the 15th century. For castles described by our editors this is when the present building was built; for the rest it is the earliest date in Wikidata – founding, first mention or start of construction. Many castles were rebuilt over the following centuries.

151
sites
12
UNESCO
  • Castle ruins: 19
  • Castles: 107
  • Palaces and châteaux: 7
  • Fortresses and forts: 18

Best known

Register of sites

United Kingdom 24

  1. Linlithgow Palace 1424 · Scotland
  2. Kisimul Castle 1427 · Scotland
  3. Enniskillen Castle 1428 · Northern Ireland
  4. Borthwick Castle 1430 · Scotland
  5. Caister Castle 1432 · England
  6. Tattershall Castle c. 1434 · England
  7. Raglan Castle c. 1435 · Wales
  8. Belsay Castle 1439 · England
  9. Castle Stalker c. 1440 · Scotland
  10. Blackness Castle c. 1440 · Scotland
  11. Herstmonceux Castle 1441 · England
  12. Sudeley Castle 1443 · England
  13. Kilchurn Castle 1450 · Scotland
  14. Cawdor Castle 1454 · Scotland
  15. Castle Fraser 1455 · Scotland
  16. Ravenscraig Castle 1460 · Scotland
  17. Baconsthorpe Castle 15th century · England
  18. Castle Sinclair Girnigoe 1476 · Scotland
  19. Kirby Muxloe Castle 1480 · England
  20. Broughty Castle 1490 · Scotland
  21. Kingswear Castle 1491 · England
  22. Berry Pomeroy Castle 1496 · England
  23. Niddry Castle 1500 · Scotland
  24. Craignethan Castle c. 1500 · Scotland

France 20

  1. Château d'Azay-le-Ferron 15th century · Centre-Val de Loire
  2. Château de Mauvezin 15th century · Occitanie
  3. Château de Sedan 1424 · Grand Est
  4. Saint Malo Castle 1424 · Bretagne
  5. Château d'Anjony 1430 · Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
  6. Château du Rivau 1445 · Centre-Val de Loire
  7. Château de Montsoreau ◆ c. 1450 · Pays de la Loire
  8. Château de Troussay 1450 · Centre-Val de Loire
  9. Château d'Ussé ◆ c. 1462 · Centre-Val de Loire
  10. Château de Langeais c. 1465 · Centre-Val de Loire
  11. Château des ducs de Bretagne, Nantes 1466 · Pays de la Loire
  12. Château du Plessis-Bourré 1468 · Pays de la Loire
  13. Château de Chaumont c. 1469 · Centre-Val de Loire
  14. Château du Clos Lucé 1471 · Centre-Val de Loire
  15. Château de Rambouillet 1474 · Île-de-France
  16. Château des Milandes 1489 · Nouvelle-Aquitaine
  17. Château d'Amboise c. 1492 · Centre-Val de Loire
  18. Fort de Salses 1497 · Occitanie
  19. Château d'Ainay-le-Vieil 1500 · Centre-Val de Loire
  20. Château de Thoury 15th century · Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Japan 19

  1. Nanao Castle 1408 · Ishikawa Prefecture
  2. Zakimi Castle, Okinawa ◆ 1416 · Okinawa Prefecture
  3. Odawara Castle 1418 · Kanagawa Prefecture
  4. Takeda Castle 1443 · Hyōgo Prefecture
  5. Okazaki Castle 1455 · Aichi Prefecture
  6. Edo Castle 1457 · Tokyo
  7. Kawagoe Castle 1457 · Saitama Prefecture
  8. Kannonji Castle 1468 · Shiga Prefecture
  9. Inuyama Castle 1469 · Gifu Prefecture
  10. Kanayama Castle, Ōta 1469 · Gunma Prefecture
  11. Kakegawa Castle 1469 · Shizuoka Prefecture
  12. Yamanaka Castle 1469 · Shizuoka Prefecture
  13. Ichijōdani Asakura Family Historic Ruins 1471 · Fukui Prefecture
  14. Hachigata Castle 1476 · Saitama Prefecture
  15. Oshi Castle, Gyōda 1479 · Saitama Prefecture
  16. Miki Castle 1492 · Hyōgo Prefecture
  17. Hara Castle ◆ 1496 · Nagasaki Prefecture
  18. Murakami Castle 1500 · Niigata Prefecture
  19. Iwatsuki Castle 15th century · Saitama Prefecture

Italy 13

  1. Saint George Castle 1406 · Lombardia
  2. Fortress of San Leo 1441 · Emilia-Romagna
  3. Aragonese Castle, Ischia 1442 · Campania
  4. Castel Nuovo 1443 · Campania
  5. Sforza Castle 1450 · Lombardia
  6. Torrechiara Castle 15th century · Emilia-Romagna
  7. Rocca Malatestiana 15th century · Emilia-Romagna
  8. Rocca dei Rossi 15th century · Emilia-Romagna
  9. Piccolomini Castle 1460 · Abruzzo
  10. Castello Orsini-Odescalchi 1470 · Lazio
  11. Piccolomini Castle 1485 · Abruzzo
  12. Castello Aragonese 1486 · Apulia
  13. Orsini-Colonna Castle 1490 · Abruzzo

Spain 8

  1. Royal Palace of Olite c. 1402 · Navarre
  2. Castle of La Mota c. 1440 · Valladolid
  3. Castle of Coca 1453 · Segovia
  4. Castillo de Belmonte 1456 · Cuenca
  5. New Castle of Manzanares el Real 1475 · Community of Madrid
  6. Melilla la Vieja c. 1497 · Melilla
  7. Castillo de La Calahorra 1500 · Granada
  8. Fuensaldaña Castle 15th century · Valladolid

Poland 7

  1. Tykocin Castle 15th century · Podlaskie Voivodeship
  2. Castle of the Masovian Dukes in Ciechanów 1429 · Masovian Voivodeship
  3. Dębno Castle 1480 · Lesser Poland Voivodeship
  4. Wisłoujście Fortress 1482 · Pomeranian Voivodeship
  5. Grodziec Castle 15th century · Lower Silesian Voivodeship
  6. Old Castle in Żywiec 15th century · Silesian Voivodeship
  7. Sielecki Castle 15th century · Silesian Voivodeship

Ireland 6

  1. Bunratty Castle 1425 · Clare
  2. Ashtown Castle 1430 · Dublin
  3. Blarney Castle 1446 · Cork
  4. Leamaneh Castle 1480 · Clare
  5. Ballinalacken Castle 15th century · Clare
  6. Desmond Castle 1500 · Cork

Türkiye 4

  1. Bodrum Castle c. 1404 · Muğla
  2. Rumeli Hisarı 1452 · Istanbul
  3. Kilitbahir Castle 1452 · Çanakkale
  4. Yedikule Fortress 1458 · Istanbul

Croatia 4

  1. Prozor Fortress 1406 · Split-Dalmatia
  2. Kamerlengo Castle, Trogir ◆ 1420 · Split-Dalmatia
  3. Veliki Tabor Castle 15th century · Krapina-Zagorje
  4. Gvozdansko Castle 15th century · Sisak-Moslavina

India 4

  1. Bhadra Fort ◆ 1411 · Gujarat
  2. Gawilghur Fort 1425 · Maharashtra
  3. Kumbhalgarh Fort ◆ c. 1443 · Rajasthan
  4. Mehrangarh Fort 1459 · Rajasthan

Sweden 4

  1. Wik Castle 1450 · Uppsala
  2. Torpa stenhus c. 1470 · Västra Götaland
  3. Rydboholm Castle 15th century · Stockholm
  4. Kulla Gunnarstorp Castle 1500 · Skåne

Russia 4

  1. Azov Fortress 1475 · Volga
  2. Novgorod Kremlin (Detinets) ◆ 1484 · Northwestern
  3. Moscow Kremlin ◆ 1485 · Central
  4. Ivangorod Fortress 1492 · Northwestern

Ukraine 3

  1. Zhvantsem Castle 15th century · Khmelnytskyi
  2. Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi (Akkerman) Fortress c. 1440 · Odessa
  3. Dubno Castle 1492 · Rivne

Germany 3

  1. Schloss Mespelbrunn 1412 · Bavaria
  2. Castle Hartenfels Torgau 1470 · Saxony
  3. Albrechtsburg, Meissen 1471 · Saxony

Serbia 3

  1. Smederevo Fortress 1428 · Podunavlje
  2. Šabac Fortress 1471 · Mačva
  3. Ram Fortress 1483 · Braničevo

Austria 3

  1. Aggstein Castle 1429 · Lower Austria
  2. Castle of Graz 1438 · Styria
  3. Hofburg, Innsbruck c. 1460 · Tyrol

Lithuania 2

  1. Gediminas' Tower ◆ c. 1409 · Vilnius
  2. Dubingiai Castle 1413 · Utena

Czechia 2

  1. Andělská Hora Castle 1412 · Karlovy Vary
  2. Švihov Castle 15th century · Plzeň-

Egypt 2

  1. Fort Julien, Rashid 1470 · Beheira
  2. Citadel of Qaitbay 1477 · Alexandria

Slovenia 2

  1. Kluže 1472 · Goriška
  2. Maribor Castle 1483 · Podravska

Greece 2

  1. Castle of Bouka 1478 · Epirus
  2. Rio Castle 1499 · West Greece

Netherlands 1

  1. Doorwerth Castle 1402 · Gelderland

Slovakia 1

  1. Bratislava Castle 1431 · Bratislava

Romania 1

  1. Corvin Castle 1440 · Hunedoara

Latvia 1

  1. Bauska Castle c. 1443 · Zemgale

Cyprus 1

  1. Kolossi Castle 1454 · Limassol

Estonia 1

  1. Toolse Castle 1471 · Lääne-Viru

Finland 1

  1. Olavinlinna Castle 15th century · Southern Savonia

Switzerland 1

  1. Sasso Corbaro Castle ◆ 1479 · Ticino

Ghana 1

  1. Elmina Castle ◆ 1482 · Central

Malta 1

  1. Cittadella, Gozo 1500 · Gozo

Georgia 1

  1. Gremi 15th century · Kakheti

Bahrain 1

  1. Arad Fort 15th century · Muharraq