Castles - Recently Migrated from lemm.ee! (RIP)

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Post images or any other content relating to castles, châteaux, palaces, towers, keeps, fortresses, and follies. The following content is encouraged but not required:

Castle name in native language (English name) - location [include country and region, if not city/town]
Best website (official or otherwise)
Some sort of map link
Visitation details: open/closed to public, closed but technically reachable, tours?, etc.
History: Whatever can be briefly copy-pasted

More than just images are welcome. Only real rule is that content must refer to a real-life structure, so please no fantasy/fictional castles! Reasonable exceptions include media showcasing period life and technology that somehow relates to castles.

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The cute castle of Tennessus (Amailloux, Deux-Sèvres, France) (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 day ago by squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/castles@feddit.online

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Photo by Jack Versloot

The publically available information about this castle is sparse.

The tower is the oldest part of the castle and was erected at an unknown point in time, but before 1404. The other parts of the castles were added in 14th and 15th century. It is surrounded by moats on all sides. The last part added to the castle was the quarters (1771).

It was close to be demolished in the French Revolution, because the castle's owners had fled the country, but nobody carried out the demolition order, thus the castle survived until today. In the 1980s it was purchased by a renowned sculptor who renovated it and today it serves as a hotel.

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[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

It's too bad the front of that car is in the picture