The same familiy... of vampires😜

It’s so colorful!

It looks straight out of a fairytale!

Despite beeing a overcrowded tourist trap nowadays, it's an awesome place, from the stunning architecture to the marvelous landscape. So I would absolutely recommend it as a travel destination.

always wanted to visit, hope it's still there

To me it's astounding how a structure like that could even be built on a site like that.

We have so many picturesque churches in Scotland— I miss my home country. If you visit Edinburgh or Glasgow, I highly recommend a trip to Roslyn chapel.

Beautiful photo of a beautiful building. Quite sublime...

I love how all the towers are eating the road.

A bastion fort or trace italienne (a phrase derived from non-standard French, literally meaning Italian outline) is a fortification in a style that evolved during the early modern period of gunpowder when the cannon came to dominate the battlefield. It was first seen in the mid-fifteenth century in Italy. Some types, especially when combined with ravelins and other outworks, resembled the related star fort of the same era. The design of the fort is normally a polygon with bastions at the corners of the walls. These outcroppings eliminated protected blind spots, called "dead zones", and allowed fire along the curtain from positions protected from direct fire. Many bastion forts also feature cavaliers, which are raised secondary structures based entirely inside the primary structure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastion_fort#:~:text=Yedikule%2C%20which%20was%20built%20in,oldest%20known%20star%2Dshaped%20fortification.

I miss my country terribly! I highly recommend a visit to Scotland especially if you love history, architecture, the great outdoors, and sightseeing. Edinburgh castle is a wonderful place to visit— it may not be cheap, but I still be it’s highly worth it for all the history. Be sure to see the one o’clock gun get fired off as well.

Wow. Thank you for posting. I had actually visited there several years ago; pretty awesome to see the aerial view

It is a stunning building, this photo is good but doesn't do the building justice, the light that streams through the huge stained glass windows is breathtaking

And busy floor polishers!

the bridge of sighs

Situated in the province of Segovia, built in the 15th century by the Alonso De Fonseca y Avellaneda, but using a Moorish architect. Constructed with special hardened bricks, capable of withstanding siege damage.

France has many beautiful old buildings that are abandoned. It's a shame but too expensive for many families to live there. Imagine the cost of maintaining that building, heating, you name it. And dusting and vacuuming ;)

don't the Frenchies have their own version of the british National Trust? They should take over this gem, restore it, and preserve it...

Modern houses need more turrets. :-)

Love that tower

Where exactly is this building? And is it actually abandoned, or who is the owner or responsible contact person?

On the other hand, think of it being renewed and used communally, for monks, nuns, students, an orphanage...depending on where it is in relation to a church, a city, a university. In Pasadena, CA, graduate students in architecture from the University of California are chosen by lottery to life for one year in the Gamble House, a stunningly beautiful Craftsman home by the Greene brothers, true masters of the Craftsman style. What an experience for a student of French history or architecture!

I'll take it.

This reminds me of "Escape to the Chateau" on the peacock network, very much worth watching!

that looks like a haunted house

France accelerated the abandonment of these buildings by imposing a wealth tax. Some folk paid up the first year, but had nothing left to pay the second. Or, decided keeping the place was too expensive, after a year or two of paying out.

Wow

"A bit of sandblasting" probably would have the building crumbled to the ground. Maintaining a building of this age and magnitude is a very complex task. There is a kind of chief custodian with the title of "Dombaumeister" ("Master of Cathedral Building"), who, together with a team of staticians, archaeologists, architects, stone masons and conservation specialists, manages this kind of things. As this has been a work in progress since the 13th century, it is up to debate if the cathedral really was ready in 1880, or if it is still being built.

001 Cemetary Lane?(The Addams Family)

Probably a fibreglass facade, I guess.

I always loves the open middle parts. Way to ensure every room gets enough sunlight.

Reminds me of a moth/butterfly

Why do I have a sudden overwhelming urge to don a pair of skis and be like the robot in Wallace and Grommit's A Grand Day Out!

Reminds me of something in Harry Potter.

I always wonder why these houses are abandoned. If I came across something like this and had the money to renovate...

Welcome to Little Arkham, your favourite bijoux asylum, that caters for all your needs.

Varosha is the southern quarter of the Famagusta. I've actually seen it from a boat before the border re-opened to allow tourists into Northern Cyprus. Before that the only way in was from Turkey. Whole families were split up as a result of the invasion, and have only just been able to see one another in the last few years.

Running fast with the word 'house'