The seats of the Seven Kingdoms
Castles of Westeros
From the hot springs of Winterfell to the melted towers of Harrenhal, these are the great seats and grim strongholds of Westeros — who raised them, what they hide, and the wars that broke upon their walls. The stones are the singers'; the accounts are the chronicle's own.
The great seats
- The Iron Islands
Pyke
House Greyjoy
A castle broken across sea-stacks and a dying headland, its towers linked by swaying rope bridges above the surf.
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Riverrun
House Tully
A triangular castle wedged between two rivers, able to make itself an island at the turn of a wheel.
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Dragonstone
House Targaryen
The dragonlords' island fortress, its black stone worked into dragons and gargoyles by arts now lost.
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Notable strongholds
- The Riverlands
Harrenhal
House Whent
The vast, cursed, half-melted seat that Harren built to be impregnable, and that a dragon unmade in a night.
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The Twins
House Frey
Two matched towers on either bank of the Green Fork, joined by the only bridge for a hundred leagues — and a toll.
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The Dreadfort
House Bolton
The grim northern seat of the Boltons, whose dungeons are hung, they say, with the skins of their enemies.
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Moat Cailin
Held by the Kings of the North
The crumbling First Men fortress that bars the causeway — the North's ancient shield against the south.
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Common questions
What is the biggest castle in Game of Thrones?
Harrenhal is the largest castle in the Seven Kingdoms, built on a colossal scale by Harren the Black — though its towers were half-melted by dragonfire the day it was finished. Casterly Rock, a whole hill hollowed into a fortress, is greater still in sheer bulk but is carved rather than built.
Which castles in Westeros have never been conquered?
Several great seats are famed as unconquered: Casterly Rock has never fallen, Storm's End has never been taken by storm or siege, and the Eyrie has never been carried by assault. Moat Cailin, though a ruin, has never been taken from the south.
What is the seat of House Stark?
The seat of House Stark is Winterfell, an ancient walled castle in the North warmed by natural hot springs, with a weirwood godswood and the crypts of the Kings of Winter below. The Starks have held it for as long as records reach.
Where does the Iron Throne sit?
The Iron Throne stands in the Red Keep, the fortress crowning Aegon's High Hill in King's Landing. Begun by Aegon the Conqueror and finished by Maegor the Cruel, it is the seat of whoever rules the Seven Kingdoms.