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com.thecastlemap/castles

MCP serverVerified domain · thecastlemap.comRemote● LiveFree to try

Castles, fortresses, palaces and ruins worldwide: search, nearby, fame ranking, statistics. CC0.

Install

Remote server: your requests and data go to thecastlemap.com. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http castles https://thecastlemap.com/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.

What it can do

The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.

  • search_castles — Search the atlas’s 9,902 castles, fortresses, palaces and ruins by name (accent- and case-insensitive substring match). Optionally filter by
  • get_castle — Fetch one landmark’s full record by slug (preferred, e.g. "palace-of-versailles") or exact name: coordinates, founding year and century, wor
  • castles_near — List landmarks within a radius of a WGS84 coordinate, nearest first, each with distance_km. Radius defaults to 100 km (max 2,000). For "cast
  • top_castles — The most famous landmarks worldwide or in one country, ordered by Castlemap fame rank — a blend of Wikipedia coverage and readership; rank 1
  • list_countries — Every country in the atlas with its landmark count, most first — answers "which country has the most castles" (France leads). Returns countr
  • get_statistics — Headline statistics computed live from the atlas: totals by type, top countries, busiest founding century, oldest landmarks, geographic extr
  • random_castle — One random landmark with its full record, optionally limited to a country — for discovery, quizzes and "castle of the day" features.

KitScout test notes

Not tested by KitScout yet. When our harness runs it, pros, cons and the tasks we tried appear here, with the date and evidence.

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