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com.thecastlemap/castles

Registre officiel Données et bases de données

Castles, fortresses, palaces and ruins worldwide: search, nearby, fame ranking, statistics. CC0.

Code source Site web Documentation

Installation

Ajoutez ceci à la configuration MCP de votre client (Claude Desktop : claude_desktop_config.json ; Cursor : .cursor/mcp.json ; VS Code et les autres utilisent la même forme « mcpServers »).

Remote (streamable-http)
Claude Code 
claude mcp add --transport http castles 'https://thecastlemap.com/mcp'
Configuration JSON (Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code) 
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "castles": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://thecastlemap.com/mcp"
        }
    }
}

Documentation

Tirée du README du projet sur GitHub, actualisée chaque semaine. Les liens ouvrent GitHub.

Sommaire
  1. Castlemap MCP server
  2. Client configuration
  3. Tools
  4. Data
  5. Running it yourself
  6. Provenance
  7. License

Castlemap MCP server

A Model Context Protocol server for the Castlemap atlas: 7,786 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

ToolWhat it does
search_castlesFind castles by name, country or category
get_castleFull record for one castle
castles_nearNearest castles to a coordinate (haversine); geocode first
top_castlesBest-known castles, by fame rank
list_countriesThe 141 countries, with counts
get_statisticsLive aggregates — totals, per-country, per-century
random_castleOne 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.

Questions fréquentes

Qu'est-ce que com.thecastlemap/castles ?

Castles, fortresses, palaces and ruins worldwide: search, nearby, fame ranking, statistics. CC0.

Comment installer com.thecastlemap/castles ?

Il fonctionne comme serveur distant. Dans Claude Code : claude mcp add --transport http castles 'https://thecastlemap.com/mcp'. Pour les autres clients, collez la configuration JSON de cette page dans leurs réglages MCP.

Faut-il une clé API pour com.thecastlemap/castles ?

Son entrée au registre n'indique aucune clé ni secret obligatoire. Certaines fonctions peuvent tout de même demander un compte auprès du service auquel il se connecte.

com.thecastlemap/castles est-il open source ?

Oui. Son code est sur GitHub sous licence MIT.

Qui maintient com.thecastlemap/castles ?

Il est publié par Flightmussy. AI.tn le référence sans le maintenir ni le recommander.

Issu du registre MCP officiel. Être listé n'est pas une recommandation : vérifiez le code et les permissions d'un serveur avant de lui donner accès à vos données.