ITT: We post comfy historical ruins Heidelberg castle, 1500s

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>>3224309
Raglan castle, Wales, 1430s

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>>3224317
Bukelon Fortress, Bulgaria, Originally build in the 6th century, current remains are from 1330s

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Golubac, Serbia, 1300s

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Mirow Castle, Poland, 1300s

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>>3224309
Castillo de Priorio

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Roman stadium of Philipopolis, Bulgaria, 1st century AD

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Castillo de Belalcazar from 1400s

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Roman martyrium, Bulgaria, 4th century AD

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>>3224309
I visited Heidelberg last spring. Probably the comfiest castle I've seen, ruined or otherwise.

>>3224309
I've been to Heidelberg castle. More comfy in real life than in pictures desu 10/10

>>3224675
OP here I used to live right underneath it for 4 years. In autumn time we used to go to the road that goes above the gardens and go through a hole in the fence where the road winds up the hill towards the villas. Then we would sit on a bench and drink beers all night. Literally the best nights of my life.

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Oh shieeeeeeeet commencing Bulgarian dump

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>>3224793

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>>3224797

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>>3224805

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>>3224811

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>>3224735
>tfw you're an Americuck living in shitty suburb home and Yuros are living like this

Why live?

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>>3224824

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>>3224894
Roman wall in Hisarya preserved to its original height.

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>>3224911
Gatehouse on the same wall

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>>3224917
Imma stop now because I can go on forever

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>>3224863
The greatest tragedy isn't it. I used to walk to school every single day over a 2000 year old Roman street which now served as an underpass underneath a major boulevard and I couldn't give two shits about it lost in my daydreams of an American suburb. It's funny because you don't realize it until you achieve said daydream, then you go back and think to yourself that the fucking shops still use the original Roman door base stones for their doors too.

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>>3224977

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>>3224985

>>3224985
>>3224977
Motherfucking spaniards got them comfy vibes figured alright

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Mayan Ruins at Copan, Honduras

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>>3225010

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Rabí, Czech Republic

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>>3225001
yeah, i have more but are just ruins of other things... is nice walk in the middle of nowhere and find this kind things

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Spiš Castle, Slovakia

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>>3224793
Where is this?

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>>3225035
Same in Bulgaria my man. One of the few places left where walking in the wilderness you could actually stumble across a completely unexplored unrestored fortress from the 10th century completely out of sight out of mind. But now definitely Spain is first on my next trip list

related to pic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbpET2bpAzk

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>>3225114

Those two
>>3224793
>>3224921
are Tsarevgrad Turnov, modern day Veliko Turnovo, the medieval capital of the Bulgarian Empire. In this pic you can see the same bridge behind the number 5

1000 years ago, how simple would it have been to squat in an abandoned fort or castle, like Anthony the Great?

>>3225162
Depends. I'd say there is a chance, however cases in which a massive structure like a fort or castle just got completely abandoned them are rare. Most were usually dismantled and the material used for construction of buildings in nearby settlements. So not that hard but certainly not easy.

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>>3225121
amazing pic
you gave me new reasons to like more bulgaria

this is my last pic, it was a nice thread, i'm going to stay here lurking

>>3225142
hngg

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Incoming comfy bridges now

Who owns these? Governments? Are they heritage sites? If I had enough money, could I buy one and fix it up?

>>3224793
this might just be the coziest image I've ever seen

>>3225225
Wow, I'd never thought I would see this castle here. Do you know it or did you just post a picture of a random castle?

>>3225235
Which ones?

>>3225252
Yeah it's not too far away from where I live actually

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maximum comfy tbqh

>>3225281
nice

>>3225277
Nice. I'm just back from holidaying not too far away from where you live. I try to visit that castle every year but this year I went to Glenveagh instead.

>>3225259
Anything here with a mostly intact wall/foundation I suppose. Something where the work would be fixing things like the roof/windows/furnishings and such, with minimal effort needed for the walls/floors.
>>3224377
Like this I guess, but really, it could be any.

>>3225313
Dunno about Spain but in pretty much any other European Union country those are actually declared something like "Monuments of culture and history" and are thus under the protection and government of the state. As such no private owner could "buy off the land". Even if it happens that you own a piece of land and you discover for example a Thracian tomb with artifacts inside, the state automatically takes takes possession of your land and compensates you accordingly. For example a family friend discovered some pieces of copper and called in archeologists which in turn discovered a unique bronze age smelter in his fields, the state took possession of the land and gave him lands along the seaside which are now worth 10 times what the field with the smelter was.

>>3225349
Damn. I can see how that would be beneficial in most cases, but it upsets me how almost every castle or palace is really just a ruin or tourist attraction. Nobody actually lives in them anymore! It's a great shame. If you have the intent (and obviously money) to restore one you ought to be able to.

The government could repair them and hand them out as temporary fiefs or something for national heroes and the like. "Save the Prime minister from terrorists? Have a castle!" Or something like that,

I'm just sad that none of these places are used for their intended purpose anymore, providing a place for people to live.

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>>3225380
Yeah well "living in the castle" is more of a western thing. Down with the Byzantines and the neighboring states Bulgars, Serbs, Wallachians, Croats the word "castle" isn't used as a place where a king or a noble lives. The preferred term is "fort" or "fortress", which served as a military building, providing shelter and a stronghold for the army and only for the army. Bear in mind that the there were stone fortresses on the Balkans 800 years before the crusaders "brought" the stone keep to France and England, and those fortresses were fought over until only 60 years ago. So it's no wonder most of them ruins. You can however learn a lot about a fortress ruined and preserved in that state at some point as opposed to a castle that was rebuild, expanded and redesigned 20 times in its lifetime. And yes those are ruins but there is actually a lot of effort (though if it's done right it will not look like it) to be conserved so no further deterioration takes place.

>>3225457
Housing a garrison is still providing people a place to live, I didn't neccesarily mean the western palatial type of castle.

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>>3225254

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Neutzikon, 10th century

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Bodiam castle

>>3225010
Beutifull

>>3225011
Thats Palenque, Chiapas in Mexico

>>3225281
>>3224309
How people abandon such an amazing places? The owners just died, got out of money, revolutions?