Server data from the Official MCP Registry
2,400 castles, fortresses & palaces: name search, nearby, fame ranking, statistics. No key, CC0.
About
2,400 castles, fortresses & palaces: name search, nearby, fame ranking, statistics. No key, CC0.
Remote endpoints: streamable-http: https://thecastlemap.com/mcp
Security Report
Valid MCP server (1 strong, 1 medium validity signals). No known CVEs in dependencies. Imported from the Official MCP Registry. 1 finding(s) downgraded by scanner intelligence.
7 tools verified · Open access · 1 issue found
Security scores are indicators to help you make informed decisions, not guarantees. Always review permissions before connecting any MCP server.
Permissions Required
This plugin requests these system permissions. Most are normal for its category.
How to Connect
Remote Plugin
No local installation needed. Your AI client connects to the remote endpoint directly.
Add this to your MCP configuration to connect:
{
"mcpServers": {
"com-thecastlemap-castles": {
"url": "https://thecastlemap.com/mcp"
}
}
}Documentation
View on GitHubFrom the project's GitHub README.
Castlemap MCP server
A Model Context Protocol server for the Castlemap atlas: 7,738 castles, fortresses, palaces and ruins across 141 countries, with coordinates, founding dates, categories, fame ranking and Wikipedia summaries.
It is already running. Point a client at the hosted endpoint — there is no install, no signup and no API key:
https://thecastlemap.com/mcp
Streamable HTTP, stateless, POST-only (a GET returning 405 is correct).
Protocol revisions 2025-06-18 and 2025-03-26 are accepted.
Client configuration
{
"mcpServers": {
"castles": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://thecastlemap.com/mcp"
}
}
}
Registry entry: com.thecastlemap/castles.
Tools
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
search_castles | Find castles by name, country or category |
get_castle | Full record for one castle |
castles_near | Nearest castles to a coordinate (haversine); geocode first |
top_castles | Best-known castles, by fame rank |
list_countries | The 141 countries, with counts |
get_statistics | Live aggregates — totals, per-country, per-century |
random_castle | One castle at random |
Data
Derived from Wikidata, with summaries from Wikipedia and images from Wikimedia Commons. The atlas is curated rather than exhaustive: it covers castles with a documented history, a real photo and exact coordinates, not every earthwork and ruin.
The factual records are released as CC0 and downloadable as GeoJSON and CSV
from thecastlemap.com/data — also mirrored on
GitHub,
Hugging Face,
Kaggle
and Zenodo (concept DOI
10.5281/zenodo.21322359, which always resolves to the newest version).
Running it yourself
server.mjs has zero dependencies — no SDK, no node_modules. It needs
Node 18+ and a castles.geojson to read (download one from
/data):
CASTLES_GEOJSON=/path/to/castles.geojson PORT=8891 node server.mjs
It binds 127.0.0.1:8891 by default; HOST, PORT and CASTLES_GEOJSON
override that. The file is re-read when its mtime changes (throttled to 60s), so
updating the data needs no restart.
castlemap-mcp.service is the systemd unit used in production — loopback-bound,
DynamicUser, ProtectSystem=strict, with nginx terminating TLS in front. Set
ExecStart to your own node path and ReadOnlyPaths/CASTLES_GEOJSON to
wherever the data lives.
Provenance
Built by flightmussy with AI assistance: the concept, direction and review are mine; much of the implementation was written with Claude. The underlying data is not generated — it comes from Wikidata, and every record is traceable to its Wikidata item.
License
Code: MIT (see LICENSE). Data: CC0. Wikipedia summary text remains CC BY-SA
and is attributed per record.
Reviews
No reviews yet
Be the first to review this server!
More Developer Tools MCP Servers
Git
Freeby Modelcontextprotocol · Developer Tools
Read, search, and manipulate Git repositories programmatically
Fetch
Freeby Modelcontextprotocol · Developer Tools
Web content fetching and conversion for efficient LLM usage
Toleno
Freeby Toleno · Developer Tools
Toleno Network MCP Server — Manage your Toleno mining account with Claude AI using natural language.
mcp-creator-python
Freeby mcp-marketplace · Developer Tools
Create, build, and publish Python MCP servers to PyPI — conversationally.
MCP Marketplace
Freeby mcp-marketplace · Developer Tools
Search and install MCP servers from inside your AI client.
MarkItDown
Freeby Microsoft · Content & Media
Convert files (PDF, Word, Excel, images, audio) to Markdown for LLM consumption