The castle is famous because the English King Richard the Lionheart, who was returning from the Third Crusade, was held here in knightly custody from 1192 to 1193.
Long House
Bandelier National Monument, NM
[very tall photo]
A Bandelier photo from a different location than yesterday's. This view shows the Long House ruins at the foot of rhyolite tuff cliffs. Look carefully and you may see horizontal rows of holes carved in the cliff to support roof beams. See the link for more info: https://www.nps.gov/band/index.htm
A view of the village of Tyuonyi and cliff dwellings (left).
"Bandelier National Monument protects over 33,000 acres of ruggedly beautiful canyon and mesa country. Petroglyphs, dwellings carved into the soft rock cliffs, and standing masonry walls pay tribute to the early days of a culture that still survives in the surrounding communities.... The Ancestral Pueblo people lived here from approximately 1150 CE to 1550 CE. They built homes carved from the volcanic tuff and planted crops in mesa top fields." from: https://www.nps.gov/band/index.htm
I have visited this ruin, that sits on the rimrock of a small canyon, several times and there is usually a raven perched on top. I love how the raven's mournful croak rides on a lonely wind that hauntingly echoes down the canyon as if searching for a sign of the long lost tribes who once lived there. (Four Corners area, 4/26/20215.)
The ruins of the A-Listed Lennox Castle, just to the north of Glasgow. Designed by David Hamilton in a Normal Castle style, it was built in the 1830s for John Lennox Kincaid. In 1927, the estate was purchased by the Glasgow Corporation and turned into a residential hospital for people with learning disabilities, with the castle itself being used as the nurses' home.