Castles.secrets.mysteries.and.legends

The incredible histories within the stone walls of over 40 castles in four European countries: Germany, the United Kingdom, Portugal and Spain. Myths and legends are also explored, from ghosts and monsters to inexplicable noises and claims of treasure; to unimaginable tortures, murders, and deaths for love.

The incredible histories within the stone walls of over 40 castles in four European countries: Germany, the United Kingdom, Portugal and Spain. Myths and legends are also explored, from ghosts and monsters to inexplicable noises and claims of treasure; to unimaginable tortures, murders, and deaths for love.

Templar knights in their distinctive white mantles with a red cross, brave in the face of death rather than fleeing from the enemy, fighting for Christ and the Pope in the Holy Land during the Crusades. This documentary series aims at reconstructing, for the first time, in a complete fashion the evolution of the knights belonging to the Order of Solomon's Temple, whose original goal was to protect pilgrims during their travels to Jerusalem after the victory of the Crusaders at the First Crusade. The Knights Templar grew in power and wealth becoming the earliest banking institution of the Middle Age. They were so rich that they financed the King of France and benefitted from a direct and exclusive link with the Pope.