Honestly I wish we had such castles and fortress's here in South Africa but our country is far too young for that.. We have one castle in Cape Town I should visit that sometime!
I always find it strange that they abandoned these places after being used for so many years... What changed hey??like it can still be used can't it?
Cool write up, I love shit like this!!
There are many of these military installations around here, and generally these are not really nice structures. I'm not particularly interested in them, it's just these forts are usually on quite interesting places with amazing views.I find the old monasteries and churches much more interesting, some of them are really old.