Doune Castle
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Doune Castle is a medieval stronghold near the village of Doune, in the Stirling council area of central Scotland and the historic county of Perthshire. The castle is sited on a wooded bend where the
Scotland 2016 Aerial Doune Castle
Doune Castle sited above the River Teith
Seal of Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany and Regent of Scotland
James III and his consort, Margaret of Denmark
The fictional world in which the A Song of Ice and Fire novels by George R. R. Martin take place is divided into several continents, known collectively as The Known World.
Doune Castle
…featured Robert Taylor and Elizabeth Taylor. The BBC adaptation of Ivanhoe in 1996 also featured Doune as a location. The castle was used as a set for Winterfell in the first season of the TV series Game of Thrones (2011–2019), an adaptation of the A Song of Ice and Fire series of novels by George R. R. Martin…
The Wall in the Ice and Fire series was inspired by Hadrian's Wall in the North of England.
Season 2 of the TV adaptation featured scenes set north of the Wall that were filmed on the Vatnajökull glacier in Iceland.
For the TV adaptation, the harbour of Ballintoy in Northern Ireland was redressed as the port of Pyke.
For the TV adaptation, images of the Greek rock formations of Meteora were used for the composite views of the Vale.