Castles

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As for me I'm dumping around 170 pics of the castles of the Loire valley, France

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Apocalypse tapestry, the beast from the sea

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Apocalypse tapestry

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the castle of the romanian royal house

Thank you

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This castle is super comfy!

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The courtyard

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no photo 'cause it burned down 300 years ago DDDD;;; (and we're not even sure this is what it looked like lol)

Not Amboise ? Oh....

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>>2602503
it comes next

Magnifiques châteaux !

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the chapel where Leonardo Da Vinci is buried

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tank prototype by leonardo da vinci

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Clos-Lucé is located close to the Amboise castle and was Da Vinci's house for a while. He died there

in the foreground there is an helicopter model by him

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went on a holiday a few years ago,
we booked a camping a couple hundred metres up/downstream the river
>tfw floating underneath a gorgeous building in your 25€ inflatable boat

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the joconde (the mona lisa) painting is a copy. Original is at the Louvre museum

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leonardo's bedroom

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it should've been a great time

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I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride my bike
I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride it where I like

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Da Vinci's heavy machinegun

Great thread thanks guys.

>>2604107
This. Never knew I wanted a Castle folder. Now I have one. Thanks :)

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dumping some German castles

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Nuremberg castle

>>2599731

>those ridiculous modern rooster sculptures on the lawn

why

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>>2605155
I agree. Crappy modern art. It can't be explained

>>2599235
Is that divot in the window ledge from setting a water bucket hauled up from the river down in that spot so many times?

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probably

Fantastic photos. Thank you for sharing

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>>2605209
don't know, probably, but there is another room in the kitchen where there is for sure a device to haul up water

pic related

>I live like 2 to 3 hours away from there
>I still haven't visited

What am I doing with my life

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It's actually kinda ugly imo. Would still visit the area to drive though.

>>2600970
more northern europe/scandinavian style castles please

So are some of these castles privately owned and people live in them or are they all just government owned landmarks that have been turned into tourist attractions?

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>>2609375
Most of them are privately owned, specially the "small" ones. They are opened to public, some are B&B. A wing of the castle is normally closed to visitors as it serves as homes of the owners. The big ones, like Chambord Chenonceau and Amboise are owned by the county or national government. Obviously, a wing here and there or few room are closed due to safety rules or repair works. Chenonceau for example is fully accessible as far as i know.

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bump, because motherfucking castles.

good stuff, good stuff

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This is where Shakespeare's Hamlet takes place.

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Montagnana

Thank for all those beautiful photos. I hope to see them for real one day.

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Vyborg Castle.

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Himeji Castle.

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Three Country Moat.

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Hwaseong Fortress.
South Gate.

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Hwahongmun (from inside), under which the Suwoncheon flows.

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Gyantse Dzong.

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Not sure if this counts,
It's Stadium High School, Tacoma, WA, USA.

Back in the early late 1890s, this building was made to be a hotel, but there were several fires and setbacks, so the local school district bought it and converted it into a high school.
It's commonly referred to as a castle when talking about the building

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>Giant Dong
heh

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*get it?*

>>2599215
Filmed there a few years ago (Britfag). Surprisingly small inside - although the Long Gallery (lower floor over the "bridge" bit) is a beautiful space.

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>>2615599
in summer

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you have plenty of time to visit them, since these castles will not be destroyed but just converted into beautiful mosques

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last one for me

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2015/R1/Gallery/Castles

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>>2599215
Castle

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>>2624281
>“Louis” Carroll posts Richard Castle
Nice.

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Marksburg - Germany

>>2625572
they fucked the interior of this castle when they turned it into a tourist attraction. it was a huge disappointment

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they love imperfections after all:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi

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Vadstena

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Örebro

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Kalmar

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Less refined than the others but almighty nonetheless.
Do you have more?

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>>2629316
I'm not that other guy, but I'll post some more Swedish castles for you! First up is Läckö Slott.

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And here is Trolleholms Slott

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...and Gripsholms Slott

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Tack mate

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where?

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>>2637000
trips of magnificence

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Schreckenstein/Strekov

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i think rope was for lifting up something from boats, maybe fast food delivery

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It was indeed

>>2599215
fantastic thread, thank you OP and others too. wow. I've been thru Loire Val extensively, years ago. loved it.

Come for the porn, stay for the castles. Awesome thread.

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literally this.

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Bled, it's gorgeous, I visited in the summer. 10/10

any castles from england or scotland or ireland?

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getting real tired of all this disney mansion bullshit itt

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Ogrodzieniec Castle in Poland.

Very nice thread guys.

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Few castles, lots of palaces, mansions and stuff. I blame Disney for that.

Muslim castle of my hometown in Spain, 9th century.

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You do realize that most of those palaces predate Disney by 200-300 years, right?

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>>2650310

People posting is not predate by 200-300 years anon, i think he's blaming Disney for making ppl think those "palaces" are castles.

I couldn't care less, tho.

>>2650377
Americans know little of castles as we have none of our own. Our knowledge of castles comes from movies (like Disney films) or BBC documentaries. Closest I've ever come to seeing a castle was Fort Knox. Not quite the same.

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In my non-expert opinion, only these actually look like real castles with military-fortress purposes.

Not Neuschwanstein, the Disney's logo and the most possible reason why lots of people call "castle" at almost every big building with that kind of look.

Even there's is not an accurate definition yet about what's exactly a castle and what is not, one thing for sure is there's must be some military stuff on it, i believe.

Anyway, i love /hr/ pics of castles, and palaces and masions too, much much more than celebfags threads. Keep it going!

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During middle ages any fortified building was called castle. Regardless if it was some wooden fort or a walled city. This was the castle of the first German king. And like a thousand years ago it's mostly a fortified church.

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Neuschwanstein is actually just a schloss = chateau, not burg = castle; it's meant to look epic without really having purpose

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In my expert opinion, there is no need to quote bomb.

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Quedlinburg is awesome

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Some castles of my province in Spain:

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Sax castle, around 12th century

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Petrer castle, around 12-13th century

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Castalla castle, 11th century

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Biar castle, around 11-12th century

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Villena castle, 12th century

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OP here

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definition of château from wiki:
A château (plural châteaux) is a manor house or residence of the lord of the manor or a country house of nobility or gentry, with or without fortifications, originally—and still most frequently—in French-speaking regions.
The word château is also used for castles in French, so where clarification is needed, the term château fort is used to describe a castle, such as Château fort de Roquetaillade. Care should be taken when translating the word château into English. It is not used in the same way as "castle", and most châteaux are described in English as "palaces" or "country houses" rather than "castles". For example, the Château de Versailles is so called because it was located in the countryside when it was built, but it does not bear any resemblance to a castle, so it is usually known in English as the Palace of Versailles.

The urban counterpart of château is palais, which in French is applied only to grand houses in a city. This usage is again different from that of the term "palace" in English, where there is no requirement that a palace must be in a city, but the word is rarely used for buildings other than the grandest royal residences. The expression hôtel particulier is used for an urban "private house" of a grand sort.

the translation chateau/castle is the reason why it is confusing. As i'm a frogfag, i posted 'mansions ' and 'palaces' (as you would define them) under the word castles because in france they are also called 'chateaux' which i wrongly translated as 'castles'. Hope this is clarified.

btw i salute each of you who have been contributing to this thread. Many thanks for all of you anons

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You're awesome, OP

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Spaniard anon here.

np OP! Everybody knows already that you're gay so... :)

I save all pics of castles, but also a bunch of mansions and palaces, it's a great thread anyway.

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...you know who the other two plastic puppets are.

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Looks reasonably small and efficient.

Sometimes I imagine some kind of new Great Depression happening (which it eventually will) and while everyone chimps out like they did in Argentina, I'm in a small efficient castle with high walls, guns, ammunition, dogs, food, water, firewood, and some gold and silver when (if) the dust settles and there's a new monetary system in place.

>>2649452

Mein Neger!

That's Alicante right? I'm from Canada but I spent a winter there about fifteen years ago. I have fond memories of that place, out of all the towns and cities I've been too that is one of the one's I'd like to visit again the most.

best thread on this board

>>2641872
Happened to me as well.

>>2651552
OP is legend.

>>2609375

Usually they're privately owned and funded. The owners often have to make it a business somehow to keep the place going because of massive upkeep and taxes and shit. One castle I saw on Great British Castles (Netflix) couldn't be maintained by the family it was given to hundreds of years before, so it was sold to some company and is now a family oriented medieval themed Chuck E. Cheese's basically.

The owners of Highclere made money by letting Downton Abbey be filmed there.

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any more like these? I like the not so ornate, cold, utilitarian look.