Surely I can't be the only person on Mastodon who has gone on vacation to Europe and snapped a few castle pics?!? Come on folks, post your castle pics! #castles
Ideally, we would get photos from people who live there & can visit often to study them.
Unfortunately, Mastodon still has a smallish user base. And those that are here are heavily into tech & all things modern. It may be a while yet before the non-tech people adopt the platform.
That is such a neat one! I wish it wasn't caught in this eternal hell of being in private ownership, but unmaintained or restored. I know the owners have been holding out to redevelop the castle as a lodging of some sort. I wish the state would buy it and at least stabilize it.
Post em, even if they are rubbish! Be good to get more people engaged with the #castles hashtag. I really wish I'd had time to visit Tioram. It WAS on my list. Closest I made it was Castle Stalker. I checked the tide times and if I'd driven to Tioram I would have likely ended up stranded. Ended up going up through Glencoe and then up to Fort William and then stayed the night near Spean Bridge in a the house of a Jacobite officer who fired what was probably the first shots of 1745.
I love that there are so many places where you can stay in real castles. Most have been a bit out of my price range, but some of the self-catering options are surprisingly affordable, particularly if travelling with friends.
Sounds like Piagnaro is the real deal. It was used to control some important roads in the area since ~1000 AD, although most of the construction that can currently be seen is 1500 AD+
I've stayed at a number of historically interesting places in Scotland. Wish I could afford castle stays.
I didn't get any pictures, as I arrived rather late in the evening, but it is called Tirindrish House. It was burnt by government troops after Culloden. Its owner, Major Donald Macdonnel was captured near Falkirk and hung at Carlisle castle in 1746.
When you look at the military castle architecture of Italy, Spain and even France you realize the castles in the UK are by and large, feeble imitators of the art. You see far more angled bases (to prevent battering, undermining and keep ladders farther away), elegant machicolations and well positioned arrow and gun loops. And of course, once cannon became effective, Italianate style fortifications became the standard imitated throughout Europe.
This one is definitely not used for luxuruy accomodation :)
It's a pilgrim hostel on the via Francigena; it's also open to non-pilgrims (at a slightly higher, but still hostel-level price) and we were there for traditional crafts lessons in the town at the beginning of november (which is not a good time for long distance walking :) so the hostel was almost empty)
I was reading on the wiki page that it was on the pilgrimage route to Rome. Does it still see a lot of traffic? The wiki page said that it was considered as a kinda ghetto in the early 20th century? I'd love to do the Camino de Santiago some year. I bought a guide book and researched it in hopes that my brother would do it with me.
Always strange to me that so many people live with all these places in their backyards and take no interest. Maybe they are so pervasive they have all the fascination as the wall-paper?
I got a Cadw membership when I first visited years ago and have kept it up ever since. All the national heritage organizations have reciprocal agreements honoring each other's membership cards, so I get "free" entrance to most castles. I think it has worked out to about a pound per castle because I've visited so many. A really good value if you are going to make good use of it. #castles
I should check it out. I've been on Flickr for ages. Before that I had a self hosted Gallery instance and a self hosted Wordpress blog. I really should get into self-hosted federated services or at least ones with easy data portability.
Some good ones in there! I've got an Irish castle bagging tour semi-planned, but it may be years before I get to it with the dent that Covid has put in my savings.
I have no idea how much traffic there is: I believe it's less traveled than the Camino de Santiago, but enough to sustain a network of hostels (and the publishing of guides etc.).
They are also opening new variants, so I think that walking on old pigrimage routes is a growing thing.
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in reply to Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide • • •Ideally, we would get photos from people who live there & can visit often to study them.
Unfortunately, Mastodon still has a smallish user base. And those that are here are heavily into tech & all things modern. It may be a while yet before the non-tech people adopt the platform.
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Unknown parent • • •Elena ``of Valhalla''
Unknown parent • •This reminded me that in another age I spent two nights in the #castle of the Piagnaro in Pontremoli
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunigian…
Sadly the weather wasn't really being helpful for pictures (also, apparently I forgot to take a picture from the outside)
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •I love that there are so many places where you can stay in real castles. Most have been a bit out of my price range, but some of the self-catering options are surprisingly affordable, particularly if travelling with friends.
Sounds like Piagnaro is the real deal. It was used to control some important roads in the area since ~1000 AD, although most of the construction that can currently be seen is 1500 AD+
The Stele statues sound intriguing.
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Unknown parent • • •I've stayed at a number of historically interesting places in Scotland. Wish I could afford castle stays.
I didn't get any pictures, as I arrived rather late in the evening, but it is called Tirindrish House. It was burnt by government troops after Culloden. Its owner, Major Donald Macdonnel was captured near Falkirk and hung at Carlisle castle in 1746.
tirindrishhouse.com/history
clanmacfarlanegenealogy.info/g…
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in reply to SlowRain • • •Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide • •This one is definitely not used for luxuruy accomodation :)
It's a pilgrim hostel on the via Francigena; it's also open to non-pilgrims (at a slightly higher, but still hostel-level price) and we were there for traditional crafts lessons in the town at the beginning of november (which is not a good time for long distance walking :) so the hostel was almost empty)
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in reply to Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide • • •Also, getting inside is £££.
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in reply to Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide • • •I went to a castle last summer but I guess I didn't take any photos!
HEre's an old one instead: flickr.com/photos/celesteh/400…
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in reply to Charles 𝄢 H • • •Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Infoseepage #StopGazaGenocide • •I have no idea how much traffic there is: I believe it's less traveled than the Camino de Santiago, but enough to sustain a network of hostels (and the publishing of guides etc.).
They are also opening new variants, so I think that walking on old pigrimage routes is a growing thing.
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