Burg Plankenau
Austria
There is no sign pointing the way to Burg Plankenau, and that sets the tone. You approach past the Jugendhotel Schlosshof on the Liechtensteinklammstraße in St. Johann im Pongau, and from there you can pick out the castle hill rising above a small lake. What waits on top is not a castle in any picture-book sense but a ruin: a terrace on the right bank of the Salzach, between Schwarzach and St. Johann, lifted roughly 30 metres above the valley floor. Stand at its edge and the reason anyone built here is plain. From this height you command both the Salzach valley and the mouth of the Großarltal.
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