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Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

Hogwarts was founded around 990 A.D. by four of the greatest wizards and witches of the age: Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw, and Salazar Slytherin.

harry potter, hogwarts, and castle image — **Where is it?** Its exact location will always remain a mystery, but Hogwarts is somewhere in the Highlands of Scotland.

harry potter, movie, and hogwards image — **Where is it?** Its exact location will always remain a mystery, but Hogwarts is somewhere in the Highlands of Scotland.

Mahoutokoro

[Mah - hoot - o - koh - ro]
The name Mahoutokoro is composed of the Japanese words 魔法 (mahō), meaning "magic, witchcraft, sorcery,"and 所 (tokoro), meaning "place," "spot," or "site."Thus, the name could be translated as "magical place" or "place where witchcraft/sorcery occurs."

fog image — **Where is it?** This ornate jade palace sits on top of the volcanic island of Minami Iwo Jima in Japan. Great, unless you’re afraid of heights.

classic, details, and fashion image — **Where is it?** This ornate jade palace sits on top of the volcanic island of Minami Iwo Jima in Japan. Great, unless you’re afraid of heights.

Uagadou

[Wag-a-doo]

Uagadou may be a variant spelling of Ouagadou, a commune in southwestern Mali, or Wagadu, a name for the Ghana Empire, which was located in what is now southeastern Mauritania and western Mali. It is also possible that it is derived from Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso.

mountains, travel, and nature image — **Where is it?** The Mountains of the Moon, somewhere in Uganda. You’ll figure it out.

accessories, beauty, and chic image — **Where is it?** The Mountains of the Moon, somewhere in Uganda. You’ll figure it out.

Castelobruxo

[Cass - tell - o - broo - shoo]

The name of this school is derived from the Portuguese words "castelo", meaning "castle", and "bruxo", meaning "wizarding", thus literally translating as "wizarding castle"

Image by 🔮 ᴄʜʀɪꜱ — **Where is it?** In Brazil, hidden deep within the rainforest.

green, aesthetic, and harry potter aesthetic image — **Where is it?** In Brazil, hidden deep within the rainforest.

Beauxbatons Academy of Magic

Académie de Magie Beauxbâtons

Beauxbatons was likely devised from the French "beaux bâtons," literally translated as "beautiful sticks". In French, "baguette" is the word used for "wand" but "bâton" might be a reference to it, although it would be more likely translated as "staff"

castle, travel, and architecture image — **Where is it?** Beauxbatons resembles a beautiful château, thought to be located somewhere in the Pyrenees.

blue and silver image — **Where is it?** Beauxbatons resembles a beautiful château, thought to be located somewhere in the Pyrenees.

Durmstrang Institute

Дурмстранг // Doorm - strang

Durmstrang seems to be a spoonerism for Sturm und Drang, a borrowed German expression meaning "turmoil, ferment" deriving from the name of a highly emotionally driven German artistic movement of the late 1700s, precursor of Romanticism. "Sturm und Drang" literally translates as "tempest and urge" or "charge and rush" but was anglicised as "storm and stress".

architecture, edinburgh, and scotland image — **Where is it:** You tell us. Memory charms erase any recollection of its whereabouts to visitors, but we believe it’s in Northern Europe.

fur and furs image — **Where is it:** You tell us. Memory charms erase any recollection of its whereabouts to visitors, but we believe it’s in Northern Europe.

Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

Ilvermorny was founded in 1627, 637 years after Hogwarts, and the school was originally just a rough shack containing two teachers and two students. Ilvermorny was originally a stone cottage constructed by Irish immigrant Isolt Sayre, and her No-Maj husband James Steward. It became a school when their adoptive children Chadwick and Webster Boot hoped they could return to Ireland so they could attend Hogwarts. Isolt then promised they could build their own school at Ilvermorny with the objective of home-schooling them.