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[ahoymate]

Neuschwanstein Castle - like the Disney castle. Beautiful!

[JudyL]

They are all beautiful.  That last one that's sitting on the water, I don't know if I'd want to live in that one.  It looks close enough to land so thats not the problem, it's just sitting on all that water that bothers me for some reason.

[smoochy]

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@Kachina624 wrote:

@SharkE. It was modeled after Neuschwanstein Castle in Bravaria.  It's my favorite and in such a beautiful setting

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visited Germany, primarily Bavaria, in 2007. When my daughter was stationed there That castle is indescribable. 

[Ronettes]

Here's my favorite Castle, St. Katherine's Court in Bath, England, built in the 1500's.  Jane Seymour owned it for many years and lived in it with her family:

[qualitygal]

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@ahoymate wrote:

Neuschwanstein Castle - like the Disney castle. Beautiful!

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This, has to be a favorite of mine.  Pleasure for the eyes.

[Oznell]

Thanks so much all who posted their favorite castles.  Love seeing them, in all their variety!

@SharkE ,  the whole plumbing thing with the older ones does give me the willies.  In a lot of Elizabethan castles in England, I think it was just, well, put another layer of rushes or straw down on the floor-- gack!   I've heard that some castles had "interesting" and ingenious (for the time) drainage systems of some sort or another....  

@bmorechick ,  your story of your Polish grandmother touched me.  Her child-like wonder at going to see the kasztels in the forest--  so very sweet....

@JudyL ,  I know what you mean.  With that one, even though you can't see it, they built a whole island first, then set the structure on it.  But if that's the case, why not leave some land around it?  I don't like the water lapping right around the building like that either, frankly.  Stobnica is the only modern castle in the group, so they must have had to observe some codes for building, one would think.  

[Still Raining]

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@ahoymate wrote:

Neuschwanstein Castle - like the Disney castle. Beautiful!

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Indeed this one is on everyone's list.  Sort of bare inside tho.

What I remember is the hike up from the parking.  Then the tour started by taking us up several flights of stairs!  Do they still do that?

[SharkE]

@Oznell   Yeah, I'm a big reader of history way back when. Always wanted to see the Palace of Versailles.

You think the way it looks now is the way it was hundreds of yrs. ago.   Uh, No.  The men did their business in the corners. Women squatted where they could find a spot and arrange all their undergarments.

Dogs ran free thru the entire place.  They seldom washed their hair let it build up oil so they could get

those high hairstyles and insert decorations into the matted mess.  They always carried little containers of

perfume and a hankerchief to wave away people's smells. They took sniffs of their little containers of perfume to escape the people who never bathed.

For some reason they thought taking a bath was bad for the body I've read. The peons had to empty chamberpots out the window that was kept under the bed of their masters.

Reason why Kings and Queens took what they called

pilgrimages was to leave long enough so the whole place could be cleaned and washed and scrubbed.

Like an annual airing out.