Florida has 11 castles that aren't at Disney: Where you can find them

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Florida has at least 11 castles and castle-like structures, with eight located in St. Augustine, the oldest continuously inhabited European-established town in the U.S.

Bok Tower Gardens in Lake Wales features a "singing tower" containing a carillon, but the tower's interior is not accessible to the public.

St. Augustine's castles include Castillo de San Marcos, Castle Otttis, Villa Zorayda, Ripley's Believe It or Not! (Castle Warden), Flagler College, Lightner Museum, Memorial Presbyterian Church and Fort Matanzas.

The U.S. may be nearly 250 years free from the rule of a monarch, but we still have castles. They aren’t castles that have housed generations of royalty or hold crown jewels of any kind, but they’re castles nonetheless.

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