About this project
Explore Castles is an interactive catalogue of castles, fortresses and palaces across the continent. The homepage shows a full-screen, dynamic map where you'll find every castle as a marker. Click a marker for a photo, the key facts and a short description.
The map runs on Leaflet with tiles from OpenStreetMap, plus a terrain and satellite layer. At high density, castles are clustered automatically to keep the map readable.
All data lives in a SQL Server database and is managed from the castle list: you can add, edit and delete castles, manage photos and pin the location straight on the map.
Photos come from Wikimedia Commons. The application is built with ASP.NET Core MVC (.NET 10) and Entity Framework Core.