One More Castle by sandra46
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Description
This unknown castle perched on a cliff stands guard the entrance of the valley along the river Adige between Trento and Rovereto. Since neolithic times this has been a north-south highway(and viceversa). It connected the powerful fortified villages south of Verona and the Garda Lake pile dwellings with the copper mines of Trento and, beyond the Alps, Austria. The Salt Route as well as a most important branch of the Amber Route from the Baltic Sea passed through here. Bronze swords and daggers made of Trento copper and manufactured in Peschiera (Lake Garda)'s workshops were found among the prestige goods in the rich tombs of Crete and Mycene, among the others.You can understand that controlling the passage of people and goods along this valley, and asking for a right of crossing duty, was of the utmost importance. This route is still one of the main roads connecting Northern Europe with the Eastern Mediterranean and the Aegean Seas.
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Comments (41)
Beautiful
lovely shot
This is a spectacular capture Sandra!
Fantastic result!!
Luogo stupendo e interessanti annotazionei ! bel lavoro , Sandra !
Must be diffucult to go shopping if someone lives here today? Great capture, Sandra!! :o)
A very surrealistic view here and magnificent capture! Thanks for the image and the history! Bravo and well done!
PRECIOSO LUGAR Y MUCHAS GRACIAS.
Amazing work, very well done!
Many years ago I climbed right up to that castle (there is a small path with steps around the rock) and spent there a whole night waiting for the ghosts to appear. Nope, but it was a fun experience!
a briefer comment, but I wanted to comment on this because of the picture itself. You presented it like a textile piece, something in fabric: It gives the castle an antiquated look, but moreso makes it almost quaint---which is odd for a structure as fierce as this. I love that quaint feel. And your shot places the castle in the center, allowing us to see how it emerges 'out' of the precipitous rock, and also sits in front of more precipitous rock. I don't know where you were when you took this, but it looks like you were suspended in air. So the composition and frontal pov is just right for this strangely beautiful beast. As for the importance of the path that this castle guards, we don't see a path per se---no roads or rivers in sight here---but it presence certainly speaks of guardianship as well as of a massive 'do not trespass' message to all who see it. Better, trespass---pass through---but only after paying tribute, fee, acknowledging the powers that be, etc. Evocative shot in this evocative series.