Dragonstone is the home port of part of the Royal Fleet. In addition, Dragonstone commands the loyalty of a number of smaller houses located on surrounding islands in theNarrow Sea and on nearby parts of the coastal mainland. Dragonstone is a cold, drafty and harsh place. Lord Stannis and his family usually prefers to spend as much time as possible at court away from the island, but have recently returned to Dragonstone to attend to business there just before the start of the series.
Dragonstone is one of the strongest castles in all of the Seven Kingdoms, due to its advanced Valyrian design, using strong stonemasonry techniques now lost to the world. Its isolated island location greatly enhances its already formidable defensive prowess: a vast fleet of ships would be required simply to transport troops and large siege weapons to its location, and even then they would be forced to make a risky amphibious landing while under fire from the castle's own catapults.
The castle itself is not on the sheer scale of the greatest castles of the realm such as Storm's End or the Red Keep, but both of those castles can be assaulted by land armies. The entire point of building so strong a fortress on such an isolated island was to make the perfect refuge and redoubt for greater noble Houses from elsewhere: the indigenous "lands" of Dragonstone are just a few fishing villages and could never had supported the construction of such a powerful castle on their own.
In the fourth novel, Cersei orders Paxster Redwyne to transport 2, soldiers to conquer Dragonstone, which Stannis has left poorly garrisoned. He intends to take the castle bloodlessly by either starving the defenders out or creating a breach in the walls through mining and forcing the defenders to surrender.
Ser Loras Tyrell estimates it will take at least half a year to starve Dragonstone into submission. He asks Cersei for the command, promising to take the castle within two weeks.
Cersei agrees delightedly: knowing how rash Loras is, she expects him to get killed. Pycelle objects for the very same reason, but his protests fall on deaf ears. Dragonstone is taken, but at great cost, due to Loras's rashness: about one thousand soldiers are killed, most of them loyal to Tommen, and the best and bravest knights and young lords.
Loras, the first to invade the castle, is fatally injured by arrows, mace and boiling oil. By the point the books reached, he is still lying near death. This website saves cookies to your browser in order to improve your online experience and show you personalized content. Read our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy to get more information and learn how to set up your preferences.
My Rating :star: :star: :star: :star: :star:. Because of these features and its geographic position, it is extremely difficult to breach and can be held by a relatively small garrison against a vastly larger force History Following the Battle of the Trident and prior to the Sack of King's Landing, Queen Rhaella Targaryen and Prince Viserys Targaryen were sent to Dragonstone for their protection.
Season 1 Lord Eddard Stark sends a messenger to Dragonstone to personally deliver a letter to Stannis, revealing the secret that Cersei Lannister's children are really bastards born from incest, and thus Stannis is the rightful heir of the dying King Robert. Right from the start, even before the series began, Dragonstone island has held an immense strategic value. Much before Targaryens got to call it their own ancestral seat, Valyrians settled on the island and shaped it the way it is today.
All the houses which ruled the Seven Kingdoms in their own time entrusted the Dragonstone in capable hands as the island is very strategically located and embedded with harbors. To secure or invade the entire kingdom, a single conquest on this island was sufficient, as Targaryens had proved effectively.
The Dragonstone island is volcanic and after the Valyrians, Targaryens were the first in the current times to settle there. The age of the castle itself is more than five centuries. In the words of Stannis Baratheon, the island itself was and is nothing. It had no gold or gems to lure Valyrian nobility, all the island or the castle has, is stone. The Prince of Dragonstone was a title given to the next male heir of the Iron Throne.
After Aegon I united the entire Seven Kingdoms, a tradition was started, to pass on the title of the Prince to the most able-bodied heir, who was next in line. While King's Landing became the primary holding of the King and his kin, Dragonstone was made the palace of the heir. Gaztelugatxe is an islet in Spain which features in GoT as the Dragonstone island.
In reality, a church originally from thousand years ago, is at the center of the islet. There is a long footbridge from the mainland which runs to the historic architecture that has survived gazillion wars and battles.
As Princess Daenerys came home to the much talked about castle in the show, thousands of fans too actually walked to the real life location, to bend their knees.
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Another Northern Ireland location is the Dark Hedges in Ballymoney, an avenue of beech trees planted by the Stuart Family in the eighteenth century as an entrance to their mansion. Downhill is a beach that stretches for approximately 7 miles 11 kilometers ; designated as an Area of Special Scientific Interest and a Special Area of Conservation, the scenic beach draws visitors from all over to County Londonderry and the small nearby town of Castlerock. In the Game of Thrones universe, the beach is visited by Stannis Baratheon and Melisandre where they burn the Seven Idols of Westeros and the Red Priestess first proclaims her oft-repeated catchphrase.
A long-standing source of pride for the city, the walls run uninterrupted for approximately 6, feet 1. Speaking of nudity, the intimate cave scene in Season 3 between Jon Snow and the wildling, Ygritte, takes place in a mystical-looking setting that happens to be a popular tourist destination in Iceland. Temperatures have been slowly decreasing since and the site has been used again for bathing since the s—and of course as part of the wild tundra of the North beyond the Wall, since Iceland has the perfect landscape for realizing incredible fantasy worlds like Westeros.
The royal palace was originally developed by Moorish Muslim kings, most of it constructed between the 11th and 16th centuries. You'll now receive updates based on what you follow!
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