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com.thecastlemap/castles

com.thecastlemap/castles

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

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Uptime
100.0%
5 direct probes · 30d
Response
363ms
last probe
Tools
7
callable
Resources
0
readable
Prompts
0
available
Primary URL
https://thecastlemap.com/mcp
Score: 100/100
Handshake verified by our own probe.
why this score
pass Answers the MCP handshake 50/50
The handshake and the list calls succeeded on the primary URL.
pass Lists tools, resources or prompts 30/30
7 tools, 0 resources, 0 prompts returned.
pass 3 or more catalogue items 10/10
7 items in total; 3 or more earns these points.
pass Describes itself 10/10
96 characters; more than 30 earns these points.

Tools · 7

search_castles

Search the atlas’s 9,035 castles, fortresses, palaces and ruins by name (accent- and case-insensitive substring match). Optionally filter by country (name or ISO code) and category. Results come best-…

get_castle

Fetch one landmark’s full record by slug (preferred, e.g. "palace-of-versailles") or exact name: coordinates, founding year and century, worldwide fame rank, photo URL with photographer credit and lic…

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 "castles near <place>", geocode the place yourself, then call thi…

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 is the most famous (Great Wall of China). The direct answer…

list_countries

Every country in the atlas with its landmark count, most first — answers "which country has the most castles" (France leads). Returns country name and ISO code per row; country pages are browsable fro…

get_statistics

Headline statistics computed live from the atlas: totals by type, top countries, busiest founding century, oldest landmarks, geographic extremes and the most famous entry. The source for claims like "…

random_castle

One random landmark with its full record, optionally limited to a country — for discovery, quizzes and "castle of the day" features.

How to use

Add to your Claude Desktop / Cursor / Cline MCP config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com.thecastlemap/castles": {
      "url": "https://thecastlemap.com/mcp",
      "transport": "streamable-http"
    }
  }
}