点评:If you have only a day or two in Norwich, I would suggest spending your time elsewhere. Visit the magnificent Norwich Cathedral, sit in St Peter Mancroft, glory in the city's extraordinary medieval churches, make the floorboards creak in The Strangers' Hall.
Go stand up close to the bronze doors of Norwich City Hall overlooking the market and study the superb relief panels that tell the story of the city's industries and people. There, at least, a very rich history still feels present.
By all means admire Norwich Castle from the outside. It remains one of the great landmarks of the city. But unless you have a particular interest in heritage reconstruction, I would struggle to recommend spending £17 and several hours inside the restored keep. The experience is not so much bad as thin.
My disappointment is not that the castle failed to meet childhood memories. It is that it stole time: the keep has compacted a long and complex history into one sliver of an imagined past and fails to even deliver on that. It will consume valuable time that could have been spent encountering the real riches of Norwich.
If you must go make time for the main collection and whizz round the keep 'experience '.
The keep is a military bunker on a hill, no beautiful windows of light and space, no loving artistry to speak of, no patina of time. For that visit Strangers Hall and St. Peter Mancroft.
翻译:如果您在诺里奇只有一两天时间,我建议您把时间花在其他地方。参观宏伟的诺里奇大教堂,在圣彼得曼克罗夫特教堂小憩,欣赏这座城市非凡的中世纪教堂,在陌生人大厅里感受地板的吱嘎声。
走到诺里奇市政厅的青铜大门前,俯瞰市场,仔细欣赏那些讲述城市工业和人民故事的精美浮雕。至少在那里,您仍然能感受到浓厚的历史底蕴。
当然,您可以从外面欣赏诺里奇城堡。它仍然是这座城市的地标之一。但是,除非您对历史遗迹重建特别感兴趣,否则我很难推荐您花17英镑和几个小时进入修复后的主塔参观。与其说体验糟糕,不如说是内容单薄。
我感到失望的不是城堡未能唤起我童年的记忆,而是它浪费了我的时间:主塔将漫长而复杂的历史压缩成一个想象中的片段,却连这个片段都无法令人满意。这会浪费宝贵的时间,而这些时间本可以用来领略诺里奇真正的宝藏。
如果你非去不可,那就把时间留给主要藏品,匆匆略过城堡主塔的“体验”部分。
城堡主塔不过是山顶上的一座军事碉堡,没有采光充足的漂亮窗户,也没有什么值得一提的艺术气息,更没有岁月的痕迹。想体验这些,不如去参观陌生人堂和圣彼得曼克罗夫特教堂。