Wonsees: Rock garden complements Bavarian castle

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Dan Blottenberger

A simple trip to small towns and villages hidden in the mountains and forests of Bavaria can reveal an abundance of treasures.

A sign for Felsengarten, or rock garden, in the Kulmbach suburb of Sanspareil, leads to an adventure into the past.

As you enter Sanspareil, a mile outside the town… (View original article)

Work on walls might yield secrets of Colchester castle’s builders

10:00am Wednesday 13th July 2011

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WORK to repair Colchester Castle could reveal more about how the Normans built it in the first place.

Scaffolding will go up on the castle’s western wall next week ready for the builders to move in.

The castle, the world’s largest surviving Norman … (View original article)

Wednesday, July 13, 2011, by Mark Boyer

Building a huge, hulking medieval castle on your property is a perfectly reasonable thing to do, so long as it meets local building codes, and as long as you plan to live in it. If, however, you plan to sell such a strange structure (for this century and continent, at least), you may have a tough time finding a buyer. Last week, we took a look at that ginormous castle out in Oak Brook that recently got a price chop. Mea… (View original article)

Filmmaker Alex DeMille, the son of Author Nelson DeMille,

recently showed his film “The Absence” at the Long Island International Film Expo in Bellmore.

The film features scenes shot at Oheka Castle in Huntington among other Long Island locations. Check out the video to see what DeMille says about shooting

scenes on Long Island and why it’s

becoming more popular to see Long Island landmarks on the silver screen.

For more information about the film and to … (View original article)

A Building Site in Early Sixteenth-Century Normandy: The Castle of Gaillon, Organization, Workers, Materials and Technologies

Bardati, Flaminia

The

Second International Congress on Construction History (2006)

Abstract

The castle of Gaillon, built in Normandy between 1498 and 1510 for cardinal Georges I d’Amboise, has been considered one of the first and most significant achievements of the early French Renaissance. Sited on the top of a pleasan… (View original article)