Many think that the beauty and splendor of the palaces there are only great in the past. Actually, not really. While most countries in Europe have left the government system of absolute monarchy, but the palaces they mostly still maintained well as their appreciation of history.
To you the author will show the most magnificent palaces and the most beautiful I've ever stood on earth, and still stand strong today. These palaces are not as magnificent palace that depicted many cartoons and storybooks in which only consists of one large gates and two towers (typically once). But these palaces is the grandest in the world, which was so grandly could make Indonesia's presidential palace looks like a shack suffered.
Hohenzollern palace in Germany.
This building was once home to the Hohenzollern family, who later became the medieval German empire. Building later functioned as the bulwark is never destroyed in 1423 because the barrage for 10 months by the nation of Swabia. The building is then established again as the castle in 1454 and completed in 1461. The castle was then functioned as a Catholic refugee camps of Swabia during wartime.
Unfortunately, this magnificent castle lost its function in the late 18th century and some parts of the castle to be destroyed. Currently parts of the castle that remained intact was chapel-magnitude chapel built in the Middle Ages.
Construction of the castle for the third time taken to Frederick William IV of Prussia in 1846 newly completed in 1867. The castle was re-built and designed by Friedrich August Stüler with architecture smelling English Neo-Gothic in memory of the Hohenzollern family for generations lived in the venue. Currently Hohenzollern castle functioned only as a tourist attraction for domestic and foreign tourists.
Hohenzollern Castle is one of the oldest castles in Europe. Not only spacious and size of the building alone that makes the tourists were stunned, but also views of mountain peaks that can be enjoyed by the tourists of the towers.
Castle Howard in England.
This magnificent castle has been home to the Howard family for 300 years, and is one of the largest castles in Britain. If converted into square meters, the Castle Howard has an area of 52611000 square meters. With a building area of it, there are 145 rooms in the Castle Howard is quite a tragedy for those who worked as a cleaning service there.
Because of the breadth, Castle Howard has several train lines alone as a means of transport to certain parts of the building. If you live in an area of this house, lest you forget to bring your car keys when it is in the garage. Because the castle yard and garden alone has reached 514 000 square meters. This is more than enough to make your stroke because commute.
The first stone castle Howard placed first in 1699, and the construction period lasted for almost 15 years. The building is actually not categorized castle. But at the time of its construction, the building of the Castle Howard is not enabled for classified military castle by English society at the time. Castle Howard is now classified in the group of historic buildings in the UK are maintained directly by the British government.
Castle Howard was then opened to the public in 1956. In 2010, there were at least 220,000 tourists to visit Howard's castle.
Castle Segovia in Spain.
Government they also pay attention to the cultivation of their historic relics, ranging from inscriptions to buildings that had stood since the Middle Ages. One of the largest and oldest building is the castle of Segovia in Spain.
If you see the castle Segovia, you certainly feel familiar with the shape of the building. How not, this castle that inspired Walt Disney in describing the castle. Look at the shape of the building and the tower of the castle Segovia. Typically once the castles that you see in the cartoons of Walt Disney who then many also adopted in children's story books.
Segovia castle was originally built to function as a bastion for the Arabs in the early 12th century, which at that time most of the castle in Spain was built by the Arabs. Recording more detail about the history of this castle began in 1120, about 32 years after the fall of Spain into the hands of the Christian troops. But according to data compiled by the archaeologist, the fort was also once used by the Romans before it was taken over by the Arabs.
Segovia magnificent castle you see today was originally just a wood-walled fortress that stands on the foundation built by the Romans. Most part of this castle historically built by King Alfonso VIII and his wife, and the development results that form the magnificent castle Segovia today.
Segovia Interior of the castle itself is the most beautiful part of the castle. Because he is already quite old and the displacement of the hands of the great nations of cultured strong, the interior design of this building is a mix of Arabs, Christian nations and there is also a touch of latin. In one room you can still see the royal crowns that were once worn by kings who resided in the castle Segovia, surrounded by moto-moto latin and fragments of the Qur'an that decorate the walls.
Many parts of the interior were severely damaged by a fire that occurred at the castle of Segovia in 1862. Since then only a small part of the original interior is successfully repaired. Until now, the castle Segovia remains one of the most popular historical sites in Spain. If one day you are planning a vacation to Spain, castle Segovia is one of the attractions recommended.
Thank you for reading this article. Written and posted by Bambang Sunarno. sunarnobambang86@gmail.com
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