Burg Heinfels
Austria
Stand below Heinfels in East Tyrol and look up: the castle sits on its rock at 1130 metres above the Adriatic, a sprawling hilltop complex that serves as the defining landmark of the eastern Puster Valley. The position is the point. From the walls the view runs a long way up the Drau and a long way down it, and straight across into the mouth of the Tyrolean Gailtal opposite. Whoever held this rock could see who was coming from three directions, and the castle's history is largely the story of people deciding that view was worth paying for.
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