Cair Paravel

Cair Paravel is the fictional castle where the Kings and Queens of Narnia rule in The Chronicles of Narnia. It is the location of the four thrones of High King Peter the Magnificent, Queen Susan the Gentle, King Edmund the Just, and Queen Lucy the Valiant.
Description in The Chronicles of Narnia
Cair Paravel is first mentioned in the book The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. It is a castle, sitting on top of a hill above a long stretch of sandy beach, where the Great River of Narnia flows into the Eastern Ocean.
C.S. Lewis described the castle as follows:
The castle of Cair Paravel on its little hill towered up above them, before them were the sands, with rocks and little pools of salt water, and seaweed, and the smell of the sea and long miles of bluish-green waves breaking for ever and ever on the beach.
Among the titles claimed by Jadis, the White Witch is that of "Chatelaine of Cair Paravel". However, she does not dwell there. The subversive prophecy current among inhabitants of Narnia is that eventually "Two Sons of Adam and two Daughters of Eve" would be enthroned at Cair Paravel.
When the four Pevensie children (Peter, Susan, Edmund, Lucy) become Kings and Queens of the country after the defeat of Jadis, Cair Paravel becomes the seat of the court of the Pevensie children and the capital of Narnia.
In the book Prince Caspian, which takes place many centuries of Narnian time after The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (but only a year in our time), Cair Paravel is a ruin on an island. It is here that the four Pevensies return to Narnia, although it takes them a while to realize where they are. In The Silver Chair it is told that Caspian X the Seafarer had rebuilt the castle by the end of his reign.
In The Last Battle Cair Paravel is surrounded by a city. It is eventually captured by a surprise sea-borne attack and sacked by troops of the Tisroc of Calormen, last mentioned as being "full of dead Narnians and living Calormenes".
Cair Paravel is later destroyed along with the rest of Narnia, but has its counterpart in the "Real Narnia" to which protagonists arrive.
Inspiration
Beginning in 1906, young C.S Lewis (1898-1963) visited the northern Irish seaside near Portrush many times. In later years, Lewis remembered the sounds of the sea, the cliffs rising above it, and the ruined medieval towers of Dunluce Castle which many authors have speculated may have inspired his creation of Cair Paravel.

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