Knights to the tilt yard! Jousting at Kenilworth Castle
Saturday 21 & Sunday 22 July 2012The tips of their wooden lances are being prepared, the horses readied and the adrenaline is beginning to flow for Kenilworth Castle’s knights as they prepare for the Midlands’ summer sporting highlight... Forget the Olympics, this is a Grand Medieval Joust! “Whilst the Olympics do have their origins in Ancient Greece, there was a period of around 1500 years when they did not take place, and for a few hundred years during this time, the biggest international sporting events would have been grand jousts, attracting knights from all over Europe to