Riegersburg Castle in Styria, Austria, was built in the 11th Century on a 500 meter high basalt massif. Despite massive rush of Magyars and Turks it could never be taken. Please watch the video You are currently viewing a placeholder content from YouTube. To access the actual content, click the button below. Please note that […]
Medieval Castle Festival at Rheinfels Castle
For the opening of the market at the medieval castle festival in St Goar, knights, minstrels, jugglers and others moved into the big cellar of the Rheinfels Castle. Following the entry of the knights, Thelonius Dilldapp welcomed the enthusiastic audience and the organizers of the tourist information St Goar. Please watch the video You are […]
St Goar – Loreley
St. Goar is located below the dangerous rapids on the left bank of the middle Rhine in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Anyone who drives from the Hunsrück via Simmern to St. Goar sees first the Cat and the Mouse Castle, before taking the road down to the Rhine. Both castles are part of the sister town St. […]
Oberwesel – City of towers and wine
Oberwesel lies in the Upper Middle Rhine Valley at river kilometer 550. The city has a long history, already around 50 BC the Celts settled here, and under the Romans, Oberwesel was a station on a Roman military road. Please watch the video You are currently viewing a placeholder content from YouTube. To access the […]
Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece, is the second largest city in Greece and has always been an important transport hub. Today it is considered as an important gateway from Europe to Istanbul and to the Near East. In addition, Thessaloniki has a good reputation as a university, cultural, trade and industrial city. Please watch the video […]
The ruins of Aggstein – Lower Austria
The ruins of Aggstein are located in the district of Melk, Lower Austria. From here you have the best view over the Danube Valley in the Wachau. The castle, enthroned high above the Danube on a rock, was considered impregnable, but it was repeatedly conquered and destroyed. Presumably it was besieged and starved. Originally it […]