Dining under soaring ceilings adorned with chandeliers and surrounded by walls meticulously painted ... handcrafted by Versace himself. Once inside, the castle’s grand open-plan living and ...

the French word for wardrobe.Clothes were often kept inside them because it was believed the smell of ammonia from urine kept parasites at bay.Garderobe protruded from the castle walls ...

A 400-year-old stone wall once part of Edo Castle, discovered only last year at what is now the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, is likely the castle’s oldest existing remnant ever unearthed ...