4.8K views · 198 reactions | Nearly every room in the big house at William Randolph Hearst's San Simeon estate contains religious art, mostly Catholic. This large Spanish chant book (3 feet by 2 feet), with its 117 vellum pages, sits in the Assembly Room and can be seen, when we're open, on the Grand Rooms Tour. #CAStateParks #CatholicArt #HearstCastle | Hearst Castle | Facebook

249K views · 10K reactions | Blackness Castle on the Firth of Forth...

Do you ever stand somewhere and feel time shiver? Peleș Castle does that to you, an edifice that doesn’t merely exist but remembers. Built by a monarch chasing perfection, it hums with contradictions: the scent of varnished walnut and cold mountain air; the hush of a chandelier before it trembles with light. Every corridor feels like a sigh left unfinished, every carved beam a confession made in oak. The Carpathians outside guard it like monks, silent and knowing, while the world below forgets w

6.7K views · 945 reactions | Saa, watching the ducks @hever_castle...