Straupe Castle II
Apr 3, 2008 Architecture
This place is like folklore. They say - if you drink too much, you will end up in Straupe. Seems like a nice place, but in this building there is a nacological hospital.
In my opinion, it is not the best place for a hospital. It is not built for that purpose and there could be more useful ways to use this medieval castle. But we have a tradition of bad our heritage managing. We burned down one of our most beautiful castles in Cesvaine some years ago and we have more similar cases like that. At least we don’t use churches as warehouses anymore, like it was in Soviet time…
Tags: drink too much, Latvia, Straupe
Straupe Castle
Apr 1, 2008 Architecture
As promised, we move on to the next castle in the town of Straupe. I have driven past this medieval castle, always wanted to stop and walk around it, but never managed. Last weekend we finally went there. Tomorrow I will post some information about this place.