If you are a lover of traveling in places with a century-old history, from which itifies archaic, take a look, what ancient castles are still inhabited by people and even ghosts.

Modern skyscrapers and design exhibition centers gradually displacing traditional architecture from cities. Against the background of their popularity, the desire to live in a secluded castle seems extravagant. Nevertheless, in every corner of Europe, you can find vintage houses, preserved due to the efforts of loving owners. And let them not be so comfortable as penthouses equipped with the latest technology - castles have its charm.

1. Chateau Polsi-Burre, France

The appearance of it is so severe that the castle is rather reminiscent of a defensive fortress. Internal finish will strike even the most sophisticated person who is accustomed to luxurious decorations. It was not subjected to any modifications: truly unique chateau makes the absolute preservation of primary design. Polsi-Burre was built in 1472 by Jean Burre, who served as Minister of Finance at King Louis Xi. A bribemer Burre was so afraid of the uprising of the inhabitants of the land belonging to him, which ordered the palace to protect the palace in France. The lifting bridge makes it possible to depart from it, use directly appropriate.

Modern hosts do not hide the history monument to them from curious tourists, nor from film director. In 2003, Penelope Cruz spent several unforgettable weeks in the castle, filming in the picture "Fanfan-Tulip" with Vincenne Peres. Today, anyone can follow her example by rented one of the rooms of Polsi-Burre as a hotel room. For those who prefer hotels of the Five Star Systems, there are free and individual guided tours with a guide for a few hours.

2. Residence Queen of Great Britain in Berkshire County, England

Windsor Castle is the largest and most famous among those who are still residential fellow. His pomp and scale scare and amazed at the same time: in the area of \u200b\u200b45 thousand m² there is a complex of buildings with 1000 residential premises. Already 900 years old Windsor belongs to the ruling dynasty and all its members have the right to modernize the estate to their taste. Each new monarch was all expanding and expanded the area of \u200b\u200bpossessions while the adjacent forest from hardwood did not become considered a Berkshire Park. At the end of the last century, the Queen's residence was urgently reconstructed due to an extensive fire.

The British Queen today uses Windsor as a means of defeating the heads of other states and other eminent guests. She invites them to live in the rooms decorated with the original Rembrandt and Rubens, antique candlesticks and gilded modeling on the ceiling. Who after that can refuse the political request of royal person?

3. Berkeley Castle, England

The second poplace in the Palace in England after Windsor. At the end of the XII century, Berkeley's name was bought in the title of Lords. In 1327, the members of the influential family were involved in steel prisoner in their own home. Opponents of the King Eduard II overthrew him and placed in Berkeley, demanding from its owners obligations to prevent any attempt to run. That same year, from the rest of the castles in the district, the estate began to distinguish a high fence instead of the usual eye in those times of the RVA with water. For six months, the prisoner tried twice to leave Berkeley, after which he was executed by the new ruler.

Heirs of the castle inhabit a total of 20% of its area: the rest is used as the hotel and the museum. But the main article of their income is cinema. The interiors of Berkeley can be seen in the TV series "Wolfall Hall", "Castle in the country" and the film "Even one of the kind of Bolin".

4. Castle Edinburgh, Scotland

Built on the fascinated volcano, the palace towers above sea level by 120 meters. Scientists found out that the first walls appeared here in the Iron Institute: they were built by warriors who planned a raid on the tribes of the Angles. Edinburgh Castle for many centuries passed from the property of England to Scottish and vice versa. Ten years ago, the British Ministry of Defense finally refused him. The inhabitants of the largest tourist attraction of Scotland did not affect the decision. Since the beginning of the 20th century, the dynasty of the caretaker lives in the castle in the castle, whose only duty remains an hourly shot of a cannon during a light day.

5. Castle Warwick, England

The vast majority of residents of the house are stars of television and YouTube. The estate built in 1068 by Wilhelm Conqueror - a regular participant of the show with psychics, "ghost hunters" and magicians. It even fell into the book "Houses with Ghosts of the UK and Ireland". Anyone can find on video hosting shooting internal surveillance cameras with evidence of their existence.

Extreme fluctuations in temperature, light anomalies and mysterious roots suits the "gray lady" and her assistants. The pensioner, which is the heiress of Warwick's graph-owner, is also familiar with it. Her figure is already 100 years old on the residents of the palace in his long corridors and frightened aside aside at the sight of children. She does not know how to pass through the walls, so in Warwick they are accustomed to suddenly opening doors. Those who have seen her near, say that this is the ghost of an old woman dressed in a gray dress. "Gray Lady" helps the poet with the Grafic title Fulk Greville, strangled in the water tower in 1628. His shouts, freezing soul, are distributed from the tower several times a week. In addition to this couple, more than 10 unidentified ghosts live in Warwick.

6. Rock Kashel, Ireland

In the castle on the rock, Kashel lives a Cemetery, spontaneously arising from his walls. A group of medieval buildings built in 12-15th centuries is adjacent to the chapel of Kormaka - a small Romanesque church, in which the sarcophag of the first owner of the fortress is kept, in honor of which she is named. During an unexpected attack of the enemy, local residents tried to hide in the church, but everyone was brutally interrupted. They buried them there, and soon new burials began to appear around the graves of unfortunate victims. According to legend, dozens of perfume live there.

7. Manor Kronborg, Denmark

Built in 1420, the castle on the outskirts of Copenhagen is officially included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. In order to protect the capture of the joints, it was designed as the most complex system of labyrinths and underground strokes. Creative personality lives in Kronborg - directors, actors, screenwriters. Every spring they create a new reading of the theatrical production of "Hamlet" William Shakespeare and represent its audience.

8. Palace Bran, Romania

In the picturesque transylvania there is the estate of the very bloody resident of Romania of all time - Count Dracula. Bran is a famous tourist attraction in the country, as well as a hotel with numbers in the form of wooden log cabins, decorated with tiles. The legendary vampire loved to stop in him during his lifetime, but he did not leave any reminders in Brane. The inner decoration of the castle was preserved since the times of Queen Mary: she lived in it after the graph and decorated it with a large number of books, porcelain and icons. The last, on rumors, were needed to prevent the vampire night visits.

9. Pontizgrafentein estate, Germany

Even the native Germans are unable to pronounce the name right from the first time. It is located in the midst of the Rhine River: Padalzgrafentein Island used to be completely deserted and uninhabited. The fortress was built on it as a royal customs testing vessels floating by. Later she became a residence of a local nobility. In the 20th century, the state need to use Pafalzgrafentein as a lighthouse. Now the caretaker lives there and to go to visit him, you will have to twine Rhine on the boat.

10. Strengthening Castel Del Monte, Italy

The author of this building never managed to detect. In the XV century, it was created as an astronomical calendar, in each room where you can find out the time on the sunny hour or the date on the light calendar. In Castel del Monte 8 floors, 8 rooms are designed on each of them. Modern astronomers managed to prove that the location of the fortress is really ideal for monitoring the starry sky. It was equipped as an observatory in which scientists live yearly.

Vintage locks store many secrets and mysteries. Some attract people with their terrible legends about demons, vampires and werewolves, the other romantic stories of love.

Edinburgh castle

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• Scotland
• It takes the festival "Mary King"
• Based on the site of the extinct volcano.
• According to the legend, several ghosts roam around the castle. The first ghost-ghost of the Volyshchik, who lost in the underground labyrinths of the castle and died there. The second ghost is the ghost of the headless soldier who beats off the drum fraction when the danger approaches. According to the legend, this particular soldier warned about the occurrence of Oliver Cromwell's troops. The third ghost Lady Glamis, which was often noticed by the wandering castle's dark chairs. She was accused of witchcraft and burned at the fire in 1537. There is also an old man in the leather apron and the ghost of a dog walking near the cemetery. Also, from tunnels of the castle, you can still hear French prisoners, sharpened during the seven-year war.

Castle Glamz

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• Scotland
• Visitors of the castle met such ghosts as Lady Janet, a small pack, gray lady.
• The castle is a stirred room. There is no entrance to it, but its windows are visible from the street. According to the legend, one day on Sunday, two friends decided to play cards, which was banned. Now they will play the card all their lives in this room, because they have disappeared the ban.

Mosham Castle

• Earth Salzburg, Austria
• Built in 1208
• Known as witches castle. Between 1675 and 1687, thousands of women were named witches and sentenced to death in the inquisition. They were tortured, and then flawed. The careshop of them still roam the castle's chairs in the form of ghosts. In addition to the place of the execution of the witches, Mosham Castle served and the Laugh of the Werewolf. The story was traced until the beginning of the XIX century. The castle found a variety of crown cattle and deer corpses. And some residents of Moosham were condemned and imprisoned as a weakened.

Castle Bran

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• Transylvania,

  Brasov, Romania

• Built at the end of the XIV century

The castle was the refuge of the famous Vlad Charesh, known as Vlad Colochet, to plant his enemies for his love. Vlad III Chain was a prototype of the Count Dracula-Vampire and the killers of the people described in the Roman Bram Stocker. Prince Vlad Chapes had a nickname of Dracula (translated by the Dragon Son), which inherited from his father. In Brane, Vlad did not live, as many believe, but only stayed at all days for the time of hunting in the surrounding forests.

Castle Chillingham

• Great Britain
• The castle was located on the border of two conforming nations, so in the castle, the detachments of the British troops were often stopped, who followed Scotland. And the Scots often made raids on the castle. Blood battles often walked around the castle, and the captured enemies were immediately tortured and killed. With these souls roaming near the castle.
• Chillling Castle served as a mass murder. This castle was owned by John Sage and for three years he worked as a Palach-tormentor in the room torture. It is said that he was tormented by about fifty people a week. Founding that in the rustling of passion, he strangled his mistress Elizabeth Charlton. Elizabeth's father threatened to King Eduard I long-legged, which will enter into an alliance with the Scottish and raise the rebellion if the killer is not punished. As a result, by order of the king, the Perepener Sage was executed on the territory of the castle. You can hear how the ghost of Sages still drags the bodies at night.
• Another famous ghost is a blue boy who lives in a pink room. Guests of the castle have repeatedly heard a loud crying, after which they saw the blue flashes of light. The Ghost of the Blue Boy was not seen since the castle carried out an extended reconstruction and the bodies of men and a boy closed in a 10-meter wall were found.
• Another famous ghost is the Spirit of Lady Mary Berkeley, who often appears from his portrait in a "gray room". According to legend, Lady Mary's husband, Lord Gray Work, went to her sister, leaving her one with a child. Since then, Mary is wandering around the castle in search of her husband.

Castle Gusk

• Prague, Czech Republic
• Built by the ruler of Bohemia Ottokar II in the XIII century
• The castle was not built to protect from outside, but to protect people from what is hidden inside the castle. According to the legend, the passage in this place was led directly to hell, from where he came to the will of Volatovk-semonster, and the Demons, witches and other evil spirits came to our world. In the center of the castle there is a well, from which hell's sounds sometimes come across. Before the construction of the castle, the residents lowered a soldier with a rope into a pit. The soldier issued a cry, he was pulled out, and after a couple of days he died. In 1930, Guska castle attracted the attention of Hitler and was very popular with the Nazis, who began to use it for a number of secret experiments and occult experiments. This is evidenced by several bodies of Nazi soldiers who were executed in the basement of the castle. According to rumors in the castle, skeletons of unearthly creatures were found. Along the castle still walk the ghosts - black horse without head and a bulldog man. And from the upper floor window constantly shows a woman in a black dress. Only the most courageous tourists are decided to descend into the dungeon, because there are still roaming demons who have fallen from the other world.

Castle Rozhgriank

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• Czech Republic
• Rozhrberk is one of the most mysterious castles of the Czech Republic located in the south of the country, among the Austrian border.
• Named in honor of the aristocratic family who owned them.
• The most famous ghost of Czech castles is a white lady (or a lady in white, as it is also called).
• Once in this Czech Castle Baron Rozhgrik. It was a cunning and greedy man. The main girlfriend Baron Rozhmbar was a monk, which was all documents for his owner and thereby helped to seize all new lands. Once, the Baron wanted to capture the land put on, on whom relatives of the monk lived. The monk refused to draw up documents, for which he was executed by Baron. Dying, the monk cursed the Baron himself and all his descendants. Baron is the only daughter - Perhta, which he tried to marry as profitable as it is more profitable. Perhta married Count Liechtenstein and went to the Palace of the Groom. But, since, the greedy Baron refused to issue the promised dowry, the young husband sent his wife back to his father. Already in old age Lightenstin came to her forgiveness, but Perhta refused him. After that, Count Liechtenstein cursed the genus of Rozhmbamkov. The protrusion still wanders on the Caridors of the castle in the form of a white lady ghost. It is believed that the white lady dress sleeves have the ability to change the color, if they are white, then it is fortunately, if they are red, then to the fire, if black, then to the big trouble.

Castle Elz

• Germany
• The first mention of the castle belongs to 1157, when Frederick I presented the castle of Rudolph van Elza Count. Since then, the castle has always belonged to one single family.
• According to legends, the castle was never captured, because not only live people are guarded, but also the spirits of the dead knights who once owned them and still stand guarding the castle.
• In the castle you can also see the ghost of the Countess of Agnes, which, according to legend, died, defending the castle from the unborn guest.

Lip Castle

• North Roskrey, Ireland
• Lipa Castle was built in the XV century clan Okrrol.
• At the Lip Castle a long and bloody story. During the reconstruction in the castle, they found a prison with human remains, which filled three carts. One of the most famous stories is associated with a chapel ("Bloody Chesnie"), in which in 1532 soldiers sword killed his brother of the priest. Since then, the castle lives the picker of the priest. Another terrible spirit is called a kind of phenomenon, which is called "it." It doesn't look like a person, describes it in the form of a creature with a sheep, but with a person's face. When it appears, visitors feel the smell of sulfur and rotting flesh. In the castle you can also meet the ghost of a red lady holding a dagger in the hands. In the castle there are ghosts of two girls, Emily and Charlotte. Sometimes visitors see them playing and running around the castle. Or flying from height and endangered by Emily (she died at 11 years old, falling from height).
• There is no attention to the dungeon of the castle. According to one of the stories, in the dungeon there is a room with a special hatch, through which the prisoners have been discharged to numerous metal spikes embedded in the floor.

• Scotland
• The castle was built in the XVII century. Imagine the castle was owned by the clan Gregor. Today he belongs to the textile magnate J. Bulloku.
• In this castle lives the ghost of the wife of the chef Menzi Clan and leads itself very unusual. They say that the woman was very loving and flirting with all the man in a row. The husband did not make such a behavior of his wife and killed a woman, and the body ruled into two parts before he gets rid of him. Since then, the bottom of the body is wandering along the lower floors of the castle and the basements, and its upper part is at the top where men sleep.
  Some guest houses claim that at night, when they slept, some kind of woman kissed them.

Castle Bardi

• Italy
• The castle was erected in 900 for defense from raids of Hungarians.
• This castle attracts tourists with its romantic history. According to the legend, the Castle's garrison was commanded by Captain Moroello, in love with the court lady Landi Solette. Their feelings were mutual. One day, Moroello went on the battle, and Solette was waiting for him in the fortress. She every day, climbed the main tower and waited for Moroello. Once on the horizon it seemed an army decorated with the colors of the enemy. Solette jumped down, and without learning that Moroello won and ordered his subordinate to put on the attributes of enemies to show contempt for the enemy. Having learned about the death of the beloved, the captain also dropped from the cliff. Visitors of the castle say that they saw him, wandering on the castle in search of the beloved.

The presence of good locks on the door of the apartment does not guarantee the safety of housing from the penetration of robbers. The real professionals have long been learned to open any locks and without much difficulty can get into any housing.

In times, when the people deteriorates the financial position, the criminal element is activated. However, he does not sleep and in good times. The same houses still follow the apartments. You can look at your bundle of keys and determine how quickly your home will be revealed - if they want.

1. The key for the cylinder, the pin lock (popular name "English"). Secrecy - from the lowest. The presence of such attracts the thief of the simplicity of opening. Time of silent opening of the castle criminals 2-3 minutes.

2. The key for the cylinder, the pin lock of the so-called increased secrecy of the Mosrengen plant production. It is as vulnerable as the first sample. The time of silent opening of the castle criminals is 2-3 minutes.

3. Key for cylinder pin Castle Conduct. Such a castle is revealed by a conventional cruciform scum. The presence of such a castle in the apartment door does not protect it absolutely. The time of silent opening of the castle of criminals is 1 minute.

4. Key for cylinder disk lock. Locks with such a key began to be issued here on the license of ABLOY in the late 70s. Low lock secrecy. Time of silent opening of the castle criminals 2-3 minutes.

5. The key for the cylinder disk lock. Blossom resistance today is not quite sufficient. Most of these locks are revealed using a conventional plumbing tool. Opening time (with significant noise) 10-15 minutes.

6. Key for cylinder, pin lock. Very common locks, they are called perforated, or with laser sharpening. It is recommended to install in addition to the main lock and only complete with a special protection of the cylinder. The time of silent opening without a protective overlay 2-3 minutes, 30-40 minutes - with noise - with a protective overlay. Time opening with a washbox - 5-10 minutes.

7. Key for cylinder, pin lock. So far, no cases of opening of such locks with hides are noted. The keys duplicate can only be ordered if there is a special identification card in the service center at the dealer, and in some models only at the factory. The weak point of such locks is the ability to knock out, having a cylinder with a plumbing tool. It is recommended to install such locks only complete with a special protection of the cylinder. The time of silent opening of the castle without a protective overlay 2-5 minutes, and 30 - 40 minutes with significant noise - with a protective overlay.

8. The key for the Suwald Castle. Good hack resistance. The general disadvantage of this type of lock is the simplicity of removing the duplicate key in the cast. Time opening the castle criminals with a special tool (launder) 15 - 40 minutes.

How do professional thieves make apartment thefts?

Most often, apartment thefts happen on weekdays from 9 to 16 hours and on weekends, when the owners leave for nature or a cottage.

First, the houses come to exploration: check when and for what time the owners leave the apartment when returning, on which machine and so on. In order not to meet witnesses, they call the neighbors.

Professionals are following the apartment for several days, then proceed to the study of the details. It is found out how reliable the door, how the castle is arranged. If the "larva" of the castle is weak, it is simply knocked out. If it does not succumb to immediately, it is drilled. With complex castles have to mess around.

Metal doors are not a panacea. They are hacked, and pressed, and carefully open. But after all, each "barrier" takes time, and this somewhat increases the chances of apartment owners: the thief can scare a resident of the house passing by.

Zhuliki, as a rule, put "control". For example, on Friday, a match is unnoticed in the door jamb. One Georgian group put a piece of paper into the keyhole. The next day "The Health" - a match or a piece of paper - is checked. If in place, then the door did not open. Nobody went out of the apartment, and no one came into her.

Professional work does not rush. Making sure that the owners will not be at home for a long time, the thief penetrates the apartment, and then admits the accomplices there, and the group proceeds to a leisurely search, which can last 4, and 8 hours.

"Search tactics" - a whole section of criminology that the police are comprehended at the Academy, and the thieves in the "prison universities". Professionals are not litto. One inspects cabinets and safes, the other checks the refrigerator, cans with croups, linen tanks in the bathroom. If there is nothing found here - swearing plaffones, raise palaces and linoleum, sometimes they even disassemble the parquet, study the tubular cornices, legs of the armchairs, the needle pillows pillows with soft furniture - is not hidden what.

"Non-specific" take all that in sight: video equipment, things, minor amounts of money. Elementary "guests" come across and natural "guests" are professionals who act without preparation, in need and rarely find well-hidden values. Such theft 90%.

All prepared crimes occur either by press, or taking into account the external signs of rich housing. Warmer is enough to see double glazed windows on the windows and air conditioning to be interested in the apartment. It happens that thieves just sit down "on the tail" of a new foreign car and bring it to the house itself. All further is the case of technology.

If you regularly receive calls from strangers on the home phone, while the interlocutor is silent into the phone or makes the view that I was wrong with the number, be alert: the attackers often use this way to determine what time you are absent in the apartment.

Scare up the thief, as well as reveal the apartment theft will help the video intercom or video camera installed on the staircase.

Still, medieval architects were geniuses - they built castles, luxurious structures that were also extremely practical. Castles, unlike modern mansions, not only demonstrated the wealth of their owners, but also served as powerful fortresses, which could hold defense for several years, and at the same time lives in them did not stop.

Even the fact that many castles, surviving wars, the blows of the elements and the carelessness of the owners, still stand entire, says that the housing is not invented. And they are insanely beautiful and as if appeared in our world from pages of fairy tales and legends. Their high spiers are reminded of times when the beauties were fighting for the hearts, and the air was impregnated with knight and courage.

Castle Rayhsburg, Germany

The thousand-year castle was originally a residence of King Germany Conrad III, and then King France Louis XIV. The fortress was burned by the French in 1689 and would have sunk in the fly, but the German businessman acquired her remains in 1868 and spent most of his wealth to restore the castle.

Mont-Saint-Michel, France

Swallow nest, Crimea

At first, a small wooden house was located on the cliff of Cape Ai-Todor. And the current appearance of the "swallow nest" received thanks to the oil industry by Baron Steingeel, who loved to relax in the Crimea. He decided to build a romantic castle, which resembles medieval structures on the banks of the Rhine River.

Castle Stalker, Scotland

Castle Stalker, that in translation means "falcon hunter", was built in 1320 and belonged to the McDugal clan. From this time, his walls experienced a huge number of strip and wars, which affected the condition of the castle. In 1965, the owner of the castle became Colonel D. R. Stewart from Allvard, who personally, together with his wife, family members and friends restored the structure.

Castle Bran, Romania

Bran Castle is the pearl of Transylvania, the Mysterious Fort Museum, where the famous legend about the column Dracula - Vampire, a murderer and the governor Vladzhesh was born. According to legend, he spent the night here during the periods of his campaigns, and the forest surrounding the castle Bran was a favorite place to hunt the chain.

Vyborg Castle, Russia

The Vyborg Castle was founded by the Swedes in 1293, during one of the Crusades to Karelian Earth. He remained Scandinavian until 1710, when the troops I threw the Swedes far and for a long time. From this time, the castle managed to both be a warehouse, and a barracks, and even a prison for the Decembrists. And nowadays the museum is located here.

Castle Cachel, Ireland

Cashel Castle was the residence of the Kings of Ireland a few hundred years to the Norman invasion. Here in the V century n. e. He lived and preached Holy Patrick. The walls of the castle witnessed the blood suppression of the revolution by the troops of Oliver Cromwell, who burned soldiers alive here. Since then, the castle has turned into a symbol of the cruelty of the British, the present courage and the resistance of the spirit of the Irish.

Cylkurne Castle, Scotland

Very beautiful and even a little terrible ruins of Kilhurn castle are located on the shore of the picturesque lake Eyv. The story of this castle, unlike most castles of Scotland, proceeds quite calmly - there were numerous graphs here, which replaced each other. In 1769, the building suffered from the impact of lightning and soon it was finally left, how remains to this day.

Likhtentein Castle, Germany

Built in the XII century, this castle was destroyed several times. He was finally restored in 1884 and from those castle became the place of filming for many films, including for the painting "Three Musketeers".