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    I'm pretty sure the one in the cave also was featured on an episode of Ghost Hunters.

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    That castle is a ruin... yet... for the fantasy castle designers who sometimes believe their creation is completely mad... there is the Montségur castle in the Pyrénées mountains (Southern France, near Spanish border).

    I visited it and it's quite madness to imagine they built a castle there.
    (the castle is actually also famous because it is the last fortified place to fall, after a long siege, during the Albigensian crusade. And the fall officially ended the crusade.

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    The castle is quite small, really. During the siege, people built houses outside, between the walls and the steep slope (watch your steps)

    So sometimes... your fantasy castle on a mountain spike... isn't such a crazy idea.

    Pierre
    Last edited by kridenow; 10-22-2009 at 06:36 PM.

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