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The Lincoln Castle

The Lincoln Castle is situated in United Kingdom playing a very impounited kingdomrtant role in its history for centuries. The castle was built in XIth century, precisely in 1068.  For tourists the castle is known as a museum and it has a very amazing story because inside the castle everything was built in a strange way terrifying more and more the prisoners. The banks were constructed as being some coffins.For more over 700 years the Lincoln Castle has been used as a castle and as a prison.
Housed within Lincoln Castle is a copy of the original Magna Carta. It is currently on loan from Lincoln Cathedral, and has its own dedicated exhibition.
There remained just four copies of the original Magna Carta: two in the British Museum, and the other is held by Salisbury Cathedral and Lincoln Cathedral.
The Magna Carta is the most important document conferring democracy which has been dating since the Middle Ages.
Nowadays the castle we see it, someday was the inner bailey. In 1755 a great part of the castle was almost destroyed by an earthquake. To the beginnig of the XXth century, the Lincoln Castle started to be for travellers, again, a very important touristic and the rebuilt  started again.

Posted on February 26th, 2009 by admin  |  No Comments »