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Falkenštejn

Czechia

Falkenštejn is less a building than a rock that people once lived inside. It stands in the Bohemian Switzerland National Park, in the Děčín district of northern Bohemia, not far from the village of Jetřichovice, and it also goes by the Czech name Sokolí. What survives is modest and strange: small rooms cut straight into the sandstone, and the foundations of other structures that have long since gone. It has been protected as a cultural monument since 1966, but do not expect walls and towers. Expect to read a castle from the shapes left in stone.

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