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All I know about the Castle of Valongo in a nutshell as a descendant from the local families
Castle of Valongo的点评
点评：Old old Castle bearing the device of the Order of Malta. Probable connection to the Masonic Order and Templars (not verified). My family’s hometown is only a few kms away, the village of Montoito, granted Royal Chart around 1500. As a full/blood descendant of the land from both sides I spent half my school holidays there and visited the castle often. It is true that the gate is closed but you can enter by climbing the relatively low walls and exit through a low hole also on the wall.
It has been left to decay for centuries, a few decades ago even having been used as a pig sty, and the current owner couldn’t care less about its condition, even ignoring contact attempts by people and organisations who would do it from their own backs and resources.
There’s a low square keep that’s still possible to go up to but mind the middle of the floors as below the crumbling rock there’s even crumblier wood structures through which you’ll fall to the floor below if you don’t keep to the areas nearest the wall.. actually just short of hugging the walls to get to the window, the openings to the outside or the opposite wall. There’s an enclosed structure with a roundish roof (half the masonry having fallen down centuries ago) that looks like it was a grain storage area (silo?), and there is a Cross of the Order of Malta device embedded in the stone wall as a medallion..
..and there’s the remains of a spiral staircase that used to lead down to a subterranean level . You can see the round shape on the floor where the stair used to go down, the axis of the staircase whose volume has some sort of sculpted decoration (making it more than just an utilitarian feature) and vestiges if balustrade and others elements above our heads where they end.
My dad told me he used to go down those stairs when he was a boy running barefoot through the fields and hills and many other known older locals and previous generations were familiar with it too.
Sadly this spiral staircase was destroyed by a greedy local who lived in a farm very close to it (too close) and judged that proximity sufficient grounds to abuse his rights as a free man, and commit this serious crime of vandalism. The staircase was destroyed by dynamite as ”Sir” searched for hidden treasure within or behind the walls, and under the flagstones below ground level.
Other than this most of the space is taken by an inner courtyard now empty of everything. Thankfully the heritage /cultural authority gave it a plaque for some sort of official acknowledgment but it’s no way near enough to stopping it from further decay, let alone preservation, let alone restoration.
It has been left to decay for centuries, a few decades ago even having been used as a pig sty, and the current owner couldn’t care less about its condition, even ignoring contact attempts by people and organisations who would do it from their own backs and resources.
There’s a low square keep that’s still possible to go up to but mind the middle of the floors as below the crumbling rock there’s even crumblier wood structures through which you’ll fall to the floor below if you don’t keep to the areas nearest the wall.. actually just short of hugging the walls to get to the window, the openings to the outside or the opposite wall. There’s an enclosed structure with a roundish roof (half the masonry having fallen down centuries ago) that looks like it was a grain storage area (silo?), and there is a Cross of the Order of Malta device embedded in the stone wall as a medallion..
..and there’s the remains of a spiral staircase that used to lead down to a subterranean level . You can see the round shape on the floor where the stair used to go down, the axis of the staircase whose volume has some sort of sculpted decoration (making it more than just an utilitarian feature) and vestiges if balustrade and others elements above our heads where they end.
My dad told me he used to go down those stairs when he was a boy running barefoot through the fields and hills and many other known older locals and previous generations were familiar with it too.
Sadly this spiral staircase was destroyed by a greedy local who lived in a farm very close to it (too close) and judged that proximity sufficient grounds to abuse his rights as a free man, and commit this serious crime of vandalism. The staircase was destroyed by dynamite as ”Sir” searched for hidden treasure within or behind the walls, and under the flagstones below ground level.
Other than this most of the space is taken by an inner courtyard now empty of everything. Thankfully the heritage /cultural authority gave it a plaque for some sort of official acknowledgment but it’s no way near enough to stopping it from further decay, let alone preservation, let alone restoration.
翻译：古老的城堡上刻有马耳他骑士团的徽章。可能与共济会和圣殿骑士团有关（未经证实）。我家人的家乡离这里只有几公里远，是蒙托伊托村，大约在 1500 年被授予皇家宪章。作为双方土地的纯种/血统后裔，我在那里度过了一半的学校假期，并经常参观城堡。大门确实关闭了，但您可以通过攀爬相对较低的墙壁进入，并通过墙上的一个低洞离开。
它已经腐烂了几个世纪，几十年前甚至被用作猪圈，现在的主人对它的状况毫不在意，甚至无视那些自费这样做的人和组织的联系尝试。
有一个低矮的方形城堡，仍然可以爬上去，但要小心楼层的中间，因为在摇摇欲坠的岩石下面有更易碎的木结构，如果你不呆在离墙壁最近的区域，你就会从那里掉到下面的地板上。实际上，只要紧贴墙壁就能到达窗户、通向外面或对面墙壁的开口。有一个封闭的结构，屋顶呈圆形（一半的砖石在几个世纪前就倒塌了），看起来像是一个粮食储存区（筒仓？），石墙上嵌有马耳他十字勋章作为纪念章。
..还有一个螺旋楼梯的遗迹，曾经通向地下层。您可以看到楼梯曾经向下的地面呈圆形，楼梯的轴线上有一些雕刻装饰（使其不仅仅是一个实用功能），楼梯尽头上方还有栏杆和其他元素的痕迹。
我爸爸告诉我，他小时候经常走下那些楼梯，赤脚跑过田野和山丘，许多其他知名的当地老人和前几代人也都熟悉它。
可悲的是，这个螺旋楼梯被一个贪婪的当地人摧毁了，他住在离楼梯很近的农场里（太近了），他认为这种距离足以滥用他作为自由人的权利，犯下这种严重的破坏罪。当“先生”在墙内或墙后以及地面下的石板下寻找隐藏的宝藏时，楼梯被炸药摧毁了。
除此之外，大部分空间都被一个现在空无一物的内院占据。值得庆幸的是，文化遗产部门授予它一块牌匾作为某种官方认可，但这远远不足以阻止它进一步腐烂，更不用说保存，更不用说修复了。
它已经腐烂了几个世纪，几十年前甚至被用作猪圈，现在的主人对它的状况毫不在意，甚至无视那些自费这样做的人和组织的联系尝试。
有一个低矮的方形城堡，仍然可以爬上去，但要小心楼层的中间，因为在摇摇欲坠的岩石下面有更易碎的木结构，如果你不呆在离墙壁最近的区域，你就会从那里掉到下面的地板上。实际上，只要紧贴墙壁就能到达窗户、通向外面或对面墙壁的开口。有一个封闭的结构，屋顶呈圆形（一半的砖石在几个世纪前就倒塌了），看起来像是一个粮食储存区（筒仓？），石墙上嵌有马耳他十字勋章作为纪念章。
..还有一个螺旋楼梯的遗迹，曾经通向地下层。您可以看到楼梯曾经向下的地面呈圆形，楼梯的轴线上有一些雕刻装饰（使其不仅仅是一个实用功能），楼梯尽头上方还有栏杆和其他元素的痕迹。
我爸爸告诉我，他小时候经常走下那些楼梯，赤脚跑过田野和山丘，许多其他知名的当地老人和前几代人也都熟悉它。
可悲的是，这个螺旋楼梯被一个贪婪的当地人摧毁了，他住在离楼梯很近的农场里（太近了），他认为这种距离足以滥用他作为自由人的权利，犯下这种严重的破坏罪。当“先生”在墙内或墙后以及地面下的石板下寻找隐藏的宝藏时，楼梯被炸药摧毁了。
除此之外，大部分空间都被一个现在空无一物的内院占据。值得庆幸的是，文化遗产部门授予它一块牌匾作为某种官方认可，但这远远不足以阻止它进一步腐烂，更不用说保存，更不用说修复了。
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