Falkenstein!
When I was a kid, between 6 and 10, my mother took me to her hometown, Feistritz on the river Drau. Every year during Summer holidays, this most exciting adventure took place, and every year I looked forward to my absolute favorite sight: The Castle of Falkenstein!
At the town of Böckstein in the Province of Salzburg, the train entered the Tauern tunnel and about 10 km later it would leave the tunnel at Mallnitz, in the Province of Carinthia. There was a break in the tunnel and for a few seconds I could see what I had been waiting for: the tower of the castle of Falkenstein.
Just the other day, on my trip to Heiligenblut, I stopped there and actually visited this memory of my childhood.
Falkenstein, as I saw it from the train window:
The Main Gate into the Castle.
(unfortunately, the sky was a solid gray.)
Ladders and wooden stairs maintain the ancient look
The "Knights' table!
(were there only three knights?😆
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