A team of history buffs has spent the last 25 years building a massive 13th-century castle in the forest outside of Paris ...

Guédelon is a “modest castle” in France, which authentic historical craftspeople are building. Stone is rarely used to bear weight in buildings today, but it was the best option in the 13th century.

For the past 20 years, the French have been constructing an authentic 13th century castle using only techniques and materials that were available at the time (Picture: guedelon.fr) While we were ...

NORTHERN BURGUNDY, France — Deep in a forest of France's Burgundy region, a group of enthusiasts is building a medieval castle the old-fashioned way — that is, with tools and methods from the late ...

A quarter of a century after our first visit, the Guardian returns to Guédelon to find old-fashioned toil has built a “thoroughly modern” architectural laboratory It was the summer of 1999 and, in a ...

It may resemble a restoration project, but this 13th-century castle in France is being built from scratch entirely by hand, using medieval techniques, horse power and materials sourced from local ...

Deep in the forests of northern Burgundy, history is in the making. Stonemasons hew at rough chunks of sandstone with tools produced from scratch in the forge by leather-aproned blacksmiths. The stone ...

Meet the small army of stonemasons, blacksmiths, carpenters, wood-cutters, tilers, rope-makers and dyers resurrecting the crafts and methods in an age before mechanisation. Working on this medieval ...