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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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Castell de Requesens, Requesens, Girona, Catalonia, Spain (i.imgur.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/188997799 Street view: https://goo.gl/maps/t4juVdH17RkXP75K7

https://www.fincaderequesens.cat/castell-de-requesens/ (thanks to @synthetic_[email protected] for finding this)

Probably existing since the 9th century, the castle is mentioned for the first time in a document from Ponce I, count of Ampurias in the 11th century.

In the 19th century, the ruined castle was rebuilt in a neo-medieval style. The castle was extensively used after the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), when some modern constructions were added to the original structure.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://www.fincaderequesens.cat/castell-de-requesens/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks, chief! Adding above.