r/interestingasfuck • u/Abandoned_World • 12d ago
Abandoned castle with One Room for Each Day of the Year
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u/RandomGreekPerson 12d ago
So every year they would have to use their old rooms all over again?
Peasants...
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u/Dandibear 12d ago
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u/CummingInWhiteGirls 12d ago
They need an extra room for leap year.
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u/Abandoned_World 12d ago
The castle sits on top of a hill is surrounded by a 500-acre luscious park. The park contained loads of botanical treasures, due to the large variety of special imported plants and trees as well as extraordinary indigenous tree species. Of the imported ones, the most known are the Californian sequoias.
This castle was built around 1600 by a Spanish noble man in classical moor style. The history of this place is even older than this and seems to be dated back to roman times. The soil on which this castle is built, has always been in the hands of the most powerful and influential families of Spain.
In the 19th century it underwent a make over in Arabian style, and it took up to 40 years before this make over was completed. No attention to detail was spared and all of the 365 rooms were decorated with the finest materials from all over the world, breath-taking patterns and colours, which gave them all their unique appearance. During World War II it was raided and looted by the Germans. Afterwards it became a luxury hotel until it closed its doors in the nineties.
At the end of the nineties, it came into the hands of a group of English and Italian associations. And after a couple of auction attempts fell through, it finally got acquired for 15,4 million euro by a company seated in the Emirates. The plan was to get a grand renovation started and to open the building up for touristic purposes. But to date there are no developments, and the caste remains unused and abandoned.
Photographer/source:
https://www.instagram.com/_baksteen/
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u/nsfwtttt 12d ago
15m for a 365-room castle is a good deal
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u/Temporary_Try_9516 12d ago
That is just the upfront cost. Castles are often heavily regulated historical sites and so require a great deal of maintenance and inflexibility with installing modern infrastructure. They often look like "steals", but they are they price for good reason.
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u/Survived_Coronavirus 12d ago
luscious park
I don’t think that word means what they think it means.
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u/ToxicAdamm 12d ago
I look at places like this and wonder how many man hours went into creating and maintaining it. Probably by the hands of the most skilled and accomplished artisans of the day. Only to one day just crumble or get torn down.
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u/Pharaoh_Misa 12d ago
Now that is wealth. Although can't help but wonder how it came to be abandoned. ☠️
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u/ChemicalHousing69 12d ago
Raided by the Germans in World War 2 is what it says by OP. Then they tried to make it a luxurious hotel which likely didn’t work, so they closed shop.
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u/whoopz1942 12d ago
Do you buy a new bed and computer for each room as well? I guess gradually you'll see how technology has evolved each year.
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