Inspirational pictures.

[Tria]

Hey, thought I'd dig this thread back up again with another awesome German castle called Burg Hohenzollern:

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It's situated high on a rocky hill, making it hard to attack, here you can see it sticking out above the clouds:

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Looks almost magical, no? Like a floating sky castle.

It was mostly destroyed during a siege in the Thirty Years War (judging by this castle's almost-impossible-to-attack position high up on a rocky hill that must have been one Megablocks of a siege), but rebuilt again into a more beautiful castle that we see there nowadays.

I have visited this castle! Its really beautiful!

The region of Baden-Württemberg has lots of castles and well-preserved medieval houses, streets etc..
For example: Esslingen Medieval Market
https://www.google.de/search?q=esslinge ... jhBOHkrM0M

[Redav]

I have visited this castle! Its really beautiful!

It sure is! The wife and I were fortunate enough to visit this castle in Jan this year (a challenge considering we live in Australia!) and the building was wonderful, amory was impressive and the history was deep and interesting. The best part was the place was packed out two about six other tourists, two being Kiwi's who (oddley enough) seemed to know a thing or two about medieval history.

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Looks almost magical, no? Like a floating sky castle.

It's certainly set in a loverly environment. We thoroughly enjoyed our stay in the Black Forest. This shot makes it look a bit Mont St Michel-ish (managed to spend a few hours there this trip too and alot busier than other places).

[DarkTemplar]

I've actually got a trip to Arundal Castle planned in September for a belated honeymoon so I'm pretty psyched about that . Apparently it's just finished complete restoration as it was done up for the recent snow white movie. That may just be hearsay but it does look fantastic;

[mpoh98]

Amazing Castles! I love all of them!