Hi, all! Perhaps my greatest loss in the Reddit exit is the r/castles community. Being an avid traveler, it was a place I regularly just took the top of the week and put into a to-visit list. Realizing Lemmy needs the content, I’ve taken it upon myself to start that.

To differentiate this place a little, I plan to provide a little better content. While I’m not holding any other posters to this level, rather than just post an image, whenever I post I aim to specify the following things:

• Castle name in native language (English name) - location [include country and region, if not city/town]
• Best website (official or otherwise)
• Some sort of map link
• Visitation details: open/closed to public, cost?, closed but technically reachable, tours?, etc.
• History: Whatever can be briefly copy-pasted

I won’t hold users to the above but will simply encourage the culture.

More than just images are going to be welcome. Have a documentary involving castles? Have a movie set in a castle or uses a castle in the set? Have an experience visiting a specific castle? Post it. The only real rule is that content must refer to a real-life structure, so please no fantasy/fictional castles! Reasonable exceptions include media showcasing period life and technology that somehow relates to castles.

I plan to post once a day, rotating over the major areas of Europe during the week and then also mix non-European content weekly.

Let’s get to sharing!