Tuesday, May 21, 2013
We took an optional trip today to Marksburg Castle. We arrived for our tour and met our guide, Emmalagh, who produced a giant skeleton key and proceeded to open the castle gate to let us in! Tours are given by appointment only, otherwise the castle is locked. We ascended 120 steps to enter the castle, then walked up the Riders' Staircase, which is not a staircase at all but dips and grooves and lumps worn into the rock by the hooves of the knights' horses as they rode up to the inner castle gates. There was a wine cellar, several canons, living and sleeping quarters, a giant wine press, frescoes on the ceilings, and displays of knights' armor from several centuries. A cool place and definitely worth seeing. We love "storming the castle"!
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