# castles MCP Server

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

**Tools observed.** Pod connected on 2026-09-05 and the server listed 7 tools directly. Verified.

## Status

Pod connected to castles on 2026-09-05. It answered and listed its tools, responding in 11521ms.

It identifies itself as `castlemap` version 1.1.0, speaking streamable-http. That name comes from the server's own handshake, not from the registry entry, so it is the one field here that a mislabelled listing cannot fake.

## Tools

Pod observed 7 tools when it connected:

- `search_castles`
- `get_castle`
- `castles_near`
- `top_castles`
- `list_countries`
- `get_statistics`
- `random_castle`

## Connect

A hosted endpoint at `https://thecastlemap.com/mcp`, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "castles": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://thecastlemap.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

## Firsthand observations

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