Schloss Fernstein
Austria
You reach Fernstein the way traders always have: along the road over the Fern Pass, which runs from Imst to Reutte, with a branch towards Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Six kilometres north of Nassereith, the castle sits on a spur of rock above that road and above the Fernsteinsee. If you arrive by bicycle on the Via Claudia Augusta, you do not merely pass it; the route runs straight through the castle itself. That says a great deal about what this place was for. It was never a remote eyrie. It was a gate, and for centuries the point of it was to make you stop.
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