Linzer Schloss
Austria
You stand on a rise above the old town of Linz, with the Danube directly below. The castle occupies the site of the Roman fort of Lentia, and its first known written mention is oddly poignant: on 20 June 799 the Bishop of Passau granted the Martinskirche here for life to Count Gerold, commander of the Bavarians. Gerold fell in battle on 1 September that same year. What you walk through now is not a single building but a stack of lives: medieval stronghold, imperial residence, Renaissance rebuild, burnt ruin, prison, barracks and, finally, museum.
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