This was lovely. An 11th century manor castle of the sort which once existed every 10 or 15 miles across the fertile parts of Europe. These were the domains of local knights with maybe 200 or so people on their land. This castle, in the middle of noplace, gradually fell into disuse and ended up as a farmhouse. Unlike most, it was not completely removed as a source for building stone, and it has been cleaned up and made habitable. Beautiful, especially on a balmy autumn morning and with no one else there.
Now, go away, or ah shall you know...
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Considering all that has happened in Europe since the dawn of gunpowder armies, it's a wonder that there are as many of these sorts of buildings left as there are.
There aren't many particular acres on the continent where a structure like that hasn't had at least two or three good chances of being cannonaded over the last four centuries.
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