Climbing Castles

We had fun storming the castle... Well all we had to do was drive there and then CLIMB.



We went to two different old castles in the area. The first castle we visited is called Rosseno because it is built on volcanic rock that is reddish in colour. This castle was built about a thousand years ago, well at least the first part of it was. Then it was expanded over the next few centuries, and lived in for even longer! This castle had been built so well that only surface repairs were needed to fix it up for visiting today.

Even the dungeon (which really was just a room high up, with no skeletons in it) was kept really well.


They found a secret stair way in the walls of the original tower! The stairs ar so narrow only one skinny person at a time could climb them, and there was a second staircase for the trip down.


This castle had a garden of trees and grass around it, and one of the trees was buzzing because it is a huge nest for bees. We made sure to stay away from that tree.


Then we visited another castle in a town called Canossa, but this castle had been attacked hundreds of years ago, and so it just a ruin today.