About the book: 2003 / Great fortresses and castles will always attract everyone who wants to see with their own eyes the best creations of mankind. The Moscow Kremlin, Novgorod Detinets, the Tower of London, the Athenian Acropolis, the Moorish fortress of the Alhambra, Prague Castle, the fortified city of Dubrovnik, Chillon Castle, the Cairo Citadel belong to the beautiful and eternal. “A stone has a long memory,” says a Bulgarian proverb. And so historians and poets, artists and travelers are returning again to the monuments of the past. The new book from the “100 Great” series tells about the most outstanding castles in the world and the bright and dramatic events associated with them, about the people who built them and destroyed them, loved and hated them , created and dreamed.