It’s a real life Disney castle!

  • ylph@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Crazy thing is this was built in like the 1880s - my apartment building in Chicago is older than this castle. And the structure of the new castle was built out of brick, with stone cladding on the outside to give it the castle look.

    They even dynamited actual medieval twin castle ruins that were on this site to make room for the new castle.

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      1 day ago

      Cause it isn’t an actual castle. It’s just as much of a real castle as the Disney castle. It’s some rich dude’s attempt at larping as a medieval king. (Well, he was an actual king, just not a medieval one.)

      There are tons of buildings like that all over Europe, like e.g. Cyfarthfa Castle or the Emichsburg.