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com.thecastlemap/castles

com.thecastlemap/castles · v1.0.3

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

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Last check

Reachable, 7 tools, protocol 2025-06-18 · checked 2026-10-17

Test & rating

A 92/100

What it does: 7 tools · 5 read, 0 write · Developer tools

Test call list_countries: worked (984 ms)

How the rating is made
  • Answers without login: +30
  • Speed of first answer: +10
  • Lists tools: +10
  • Tool descriptions: +15
  • Parameter descriptions: +7
  • Read/write annotations: 0
  • Safe test call: +20
  • More than 80 tools: 0

Tested 2026-10-17. Fixed rules, no AI model. Grade A needs a successful real call.

Install

Remote URL
https://thecastlemap.com/mcp

Tools

7 tools listed at last check
  • search_castles Search the atlas’s 9,079 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-match-first, then by fame; each has coordinates, founding century, fame rank and links to its atlas
  • 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 licence, Wikipedia link and its readership signals (Wikidata sitelinks, Wikipedia pageviews over the la
  • 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 this with its latitude/longitude.
  • 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 to "most famous castles in <country>"; filter by country and/or category.
  • 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 from the countries_index URL.
  • 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 "which country has the most castles" or "when were castles built"; the full write-up lives at thecast
  • random_castle One random landmark with its full record, optionally limited to a country — for discovery, quizzes and "castle of the day" features.

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