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Bereta_Eder

Prince

Oct 2000
time: 07:33

09-09-2005 04:33

European tour of castles.

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What would be the top 10 castles of Europe worth visiting?

Pekka

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Feb 2002
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09-09-2005 04:36

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Nothing I couldn't come and smash down. Go on. Build more. I smash them too.

Bereta_Eder

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Oct 2000
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09-09-2005 04:37

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Pekka you know of any nice castles in Finland?

Spiffor

Emperor

CPA - Evil Clone brigade
Nov 2001
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09-09-2005 04:43

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#1 - Versailles

The rest is irrelevant.

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Bereta_Eder

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Oct 2000
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09-09-2005 04:44

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been there. I was thinking of something more "exotic".

Pekka

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Yes I do. There are at least two NICE castles.

One is Suomenlinna, and one is Olavinlinna. They are both famous and nice.
http://www.suomenlinna.fi/index.php?lang=eng
lots of pics, check it out.. cool place.

Olavinlinna:
http://snor.joensuu.fi/olavinlinna/index_english.htm
go to image gallery and click the 'Tutustu' hyperlinks for assorted pics.

Naturally there are bunch of other castles too, but I'd say those are the two nicest ones. IN MY OPINION!

Pekka

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versailles is for sissies anyway. We have the best castles. You can still smell the blood in the walls! And maybe get into some very kinky action in those dungeons.. oh yeah baby, you go and have a picnic in versailles when I can go and have sword action in any castle in here. I can get drunk in them, totally legally, and stab people. Can you do that in V? No you can't. That's why it's for sissies.

Gangerolf

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May 2001
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Prague castle is nice. At least the stuff inside the walls (like the presidential palace and the sv. Vita cathedral) is pretty neat. Plus the view is great.

Pekka

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that one is for sissies too. Little nicer than V, but still no match.

laurentius

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Helsinki, Finland
Jun 2001
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09-09-2005 04:52

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I've never understood how Versailles qualifies as a castle anyway. Its more like a palace, just like the Winter Palace in St.Petersburg

Bereta_Eder

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Oct 2000
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quote:
Originally posted by Pekka
Yes I do. There are at least two NICE castles.

One is Suomenlinna, and one is Olavinlinna. They are both famous and nice.
http://www.suomenlinna.fi/index.php?lang=eng
lots of pics, check it out.. cool place.

Olavinlinna:
http://snor.joensuu.fi/olavinlinna/index_english.htm
go to image gallery and click the 'Tutustu' hyperlinks for assorted pics.

Naturally there are bunch of other castles too, but I'd say those are the two nicest ones. IN MY OPINION!

Very nice!

So Suomenlinna is very near Helsinki as I read. Where is Olavinlinna situated in Finland?

Gangerolf

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May 2001
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09-09-2005 04:53

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Oh and Trakai outside of Vilnius is

Bereta_Eder

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Oct 2000
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09-09-2005 04:55

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quote:
Originally posted by Gangerolf
Oh and Trakai outside of Vilnius is

heh nice doesn't look scary at all. more cute like like legos

Pekka

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Bereta_Eder, it's in Helsinki. The ferries go there all the time for cheap price, and you can get on one straight from downtown Helsinki. It's like right there.

Olavinlinna is in Savonlinna. By the way, linna = castle, if you are wondering.

You can also catch the world famous Savonlinna Opera Festival. It's pretty huge. Actually, if you're into Nightwish, the singer should be in the next Opera Festival, in that castle, singing some .. opera I think.

Winston

King

Danmark
Mar 1999
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09-09-2005 04:57

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Gangerolf

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May 2001
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quote:
heh nice doesn't look scary at all. more cute like like legos

Yeah It looks a bit like this one, Malbork/Marienburg castle in Poland, the old HQ of the Teutonic Knights. Haven't seen it myself yet though.

Gangerolf

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May 2001
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this site has a list of "Top 10: Castles To Visit In Europe"
http://www.askmen.com/fashion/trave...el_top_ten.html

apparently, Leeds Castle is teh best

Bereta_Eder

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Oct 2000
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09-09-2005 05:07

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Pekka thanks I think I've listened to some Nightwish at a friend's. Ultimate porosis (=good thing) having metal band singers sining opera in castles. Damn you people are good

Winston, I'll keep an eye out for those thanks

Gangerolf, mezmerising indeed! It would be nice to also have some information about each castle like a brief history its location on the map of the country in question etc (why aren't you doing this bereta? because i'm lazy of course). but even without those still great pictures

Colon

Emperor

Antwerp, Colon's Chocolate Canard Country
Jan 1970
time: 06:33

09-09-2005 05:13

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Haut-Koenigsbourg in Alsace

alva

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Republic of Flanders
Sep 2001
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09-09-2005 05:14

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Colon

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09-09-2005 05:16

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Provost Harrison

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Feb 2000
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09-09-2005 05:18

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quote:
Originally posted by Gangerolf
this site has a list of "Top 10: Castles To Visit In Europe"
http://www.askmen.com/fashion/trave...el_top_ten.html

apparently, Leeds Castle is teh best

Oh that's just down the road from here

Pekka

Chieftain

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Feb 2002
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Figures with all these castles.. the problem with you people are, well first that you are all foreigners, is that you build castles so high. WHy is that? It's like 'here be sissies living' written all over it. The 'you can't get us out there to fight you, we are afraid!' kind of thing. THat's right, all your 'knights' etc were actually merry band of butt grabbers. That's why you had such high castles too, so no one would interrupt the LOOOOVE making.

and before you say anything....
pantyhose, wigs.. what's that all about? Don't try to make it sound like it was normal back then. We didn't wear pantyhose and wigs. It was YOU boys..

VetLegion

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Sep 1999
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09-09-2005 05:23

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You should have a time limit. For example, some of the visually most impressive castles have been built in 19th century when engineering was pretty advanced. I consider them "fake castles" and as pointless as those being built now. Those of Bavaria's king Ludwing are also impressive but relatively recent. I think the limit should be 1650. Everything built after that is too modern.

Sorry if I'm raining on parade.