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Castles and Palaces of Europe

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A huge very colorful book of castles and palaces.Includes sites from all over Europe. Most of the castles featured are newer fancier types,not many old ruins in here.Gorgeous photography with inside pictures as well.Quite a bit of information on each palace is also included. If you like German castles you will love this book.

THE PICTURES ARE BEAUTIFUL, EVERY PAGE IS FILLED WITH COLOR AND BEAUTY FROM THESE BEAUTIFUL STRUCTURES ALL THROUGHOUT EUROPE. MOST OF THE CASTLES AND PALACES SHOWN ARE IN GERMANY OR AUSTRIA, BUT THERE ARE SOOO MANY MORE AS WELL. THE BOOK LITERALLY HAS CASTLES FROM NEARLY EVERY COUNTRY IN EUROPE. PURELY AMAZING.

Excellent book. Has everything anyone could want to know about castles in Europe. The book is large and filled with lots of color photos. A great reference as well as 'coffee table' book.

I just received this book, and I really enjoy it just with first pages this book is over my expectations, if you really love castles I recommend you this book, my favorite castle is the one that is in the cover "Neuschwanstein" I was looking for a book of that castle and I checked so many books and when my husband found this book and ordered immediately at Amazon the same day and I like to thank Amazon for quickly deliver of my item, and again this book is beautiful so get it and enjoy it.

Best rgds,
Samy

I did not know that it was one of the oldest and largest castles in Europe. I did not know that it was one of the very few unconquered castles. I was taught, on location.

I flew in to Klagenfurt from NYC for a summer DJ job. After they explained upon my arrival that the cost of my Lufthansa Business class ticket and my room and board was coming out of my pay, I decided the job wasn't for me that first night. A tall soft-spoken guy offered me a ride to his car dealership in Munich, at dawn. I escaped wearing the red dress in which I spun the music, after my shift. The guy insisted that we see this castle on the way out. We were alone at dawn, eating chips, drinking great beer, on the chapel steps of this magnificent castle, atop a super-steep mountain..... Breathtaking. He was the kindest gentleman, and I was so happy.

It's too steep to frolic in the meadow and have a "sound of music" moment; you'll plummet to your death . But he gave me the history of how they were never conquered (for example by Mongols and Tartars) is because they installed an elevator-type shaft in the middle of the mountain castle to lower people down to the bottom to a tunnel that lead to the forest side, when under attack during times of war. These people collected food to sustain the castle inhabitants. How cool is that?

We stopped in Vienna to dine, and it was excellent, but Hochosterwitz Castle stayed fresh in my mind.
I plan to revisit this place one day, I dream about it often.

FYI: If you're ever in Grenoble, France - stop by the Postman's Castle. Built on the alp solely by a man with a vision. It made my head spin when I first saw it, during a 1 month stay in Grenoblr; truly amazing. It looks as though it came straight out of Thailand or Vietnam.

Some parts of The Alps of Europe are so much like the Colorado Rockies, or any "unfracked" (mountaintops blown up for oil) Appalachian strip, minus the cool killer castles.