Ancient European splendour 3

Krásna Hôrka Castle, Slovakia

www.hradkrasnahorka.sk/index.php?page=hrad&lng=en

 

"The original Gothic castle was built around 1320. The courtyard of the upper part of a rather small castle with triangle-shaped ground plan has been preserved. Fortifications were added to the castle in time of the Turkish threat. Fortifications including three canon bastions and a cannon terrace in the Renaissance style were built. In addition, it was when the interior of the castle got a more homely Gothic-Renaissance shape and when it acquired its present form.

 

Three generations of the Andrássy family tried to obtain the Castle and finally succeeded in 1642. In 1735, the area in front of the castle gates was adapted and the small Baroque chapel of St John Nepomuk was built there. "

www.slovakia.travel/entitaview.aspx?l=2&idp=2093

 

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