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Where To Stream Secrets of the Castle with Ruth, Peter and Tom Season 1 Episode 5

Episode 5

As their time at Guédelon Castle in France draws to an end, the team looks at the castle's place in the wider medieval world. Thirteenth-century Europe was a busy, developing, connected place, where work, trade, pilgrimages and crusades gave people the opportunity to travel across the continent and beyond. Peter visits Vezeley Abbey - where Richard the Lionheart set off on the Third Crusade from - to examine first-hand some of the influences that were shaping the stone architecture of the...