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That's what I was gonna say too - so much fun - you can use your imagination and often have the place to yourself. I don't know the names of all the ones we've explored - but almost all were in Germany. You can just drive along and see them in the landscape and wend your way there.
Gotta say, though, those palace gardens in this thread are impressive - I love Lilly ponds!
Those castles are usually always lovely, abandoned or ruined castles are scattered throughout as pretty much any city, town or village had one if not several castles and forts first as a defensive mean and then as the residence for princes, counts, dukes, kings, ecc.
Other favourites include:Würzburger Residenz, Schloss Bruchsal, Schloss Werneck, Schloss Schleißheim, Schloss Nymphenburg.
Balthasar Neumann is one of my favourite archiects.
Hohenzollern is one of my favourite castles.
I think the whole medieval city of Carcassonne can be included on that list too.
Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte is really nice. The garden was so elegant and there were barely any tourists, the same cannot be said about Versailles, which is basically a Chinese/Korean colony nowadays.
Palacio da Pena looks kinda cartoonish, but nonetheless impressive.
Quinta da Regaleira is not really a palace/castle per se but the whole estate is beautiful and mystical. I really enjoyed it as well.
Chateau de Vaux-le-Vicomte is really nice. The garden was so elegant and there were barely any tourists, the same cannot be said about Versailles, which is basically a Chinese/Korean colony nowadays.
Palacio da Pena looks kinda cartoonish, but nonetheless impressive.
Quinta da Regaleira is not really a palace/castle per se but the whole estate is beautiful and mystical. I really enjoyed it as well.
It was rebuilt by a German architect in the 19th and contains elements found in castles in Germany. Cinderelas Castle in Disneyland was modeled on Bavarian castle architecture perhaps that is why you make the cartoonish association.
It was rebuilt by a German architect in the 19th and contains elements found in castles in Germany. Cinderelas Castle in Disneyland was modeled on Bavarian castle architecture perhaps that is why you make the cartoonish association.
It sounds like you have visited Sintra recently.
Yeah the colours are not what you'd usually see on castles/palaces. They are very bright.
And yeah I went to Portugal in January and had a blast.
Not as grand as some but from the country of my ancestors, the fortress Guaita in the tiny Republic of San Marino. Built in the 1200s it's the first of three fortresses on top of Mt Titano overlooking the Italian countryside towards Rimini. It's said on a clear day, you can see across the Adriatic to Croatia.
Location: Near Tours, France about 47°10'N 0°25'E
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Since I live in the Loire Valley I cannot not speak about our castles, wich are emblematic to that times of renaissance that have both features of medieval times and features of the future pleasure palaces of the classical period.
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But those castles were refurbished by the nobility or bourgeois, removing their warring component. A symbol of the power of couteous nobility and bourgeosie in France.
Location: Near Tours, France about 47°10'N 0°25'E
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It was rebuilt by a German architect in the 19th and contains elements found in castles in Germany. Cinderelas Castle in Disneyland was modeled on Bavarian castle architecture perhaps that is why you make the cartoonish association.
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