Top 10 Romantic Castles - Trendelburg - Rapunzel's Castle

Well, it's almost Valentine's Day - so Days of Yore Travel would like to present you with the Top 10 Romantic Castles you can stay in. Here's our Second Choice: No. 2 Rapunzel’s Castle – Trendelburg Trendelburg - The Real Rapunzel Castle The Trendelburg Castle was built in 1300, near the city of Kassel. Purportedly this is the real McCoy – the original true Rapunzel Castle right out of Grimm’s Fairy Tales....

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Top 10 Romantic Castles - Sababurg - The Real Sleeping Beauty Castle

Well, it's almost Valentine's Day - so Days of Yore Travel would like to present you with the Top 10 Romantic Castles you can stay in. Here's our first choice:  No. 1 - Sleeping Beauty’s Castle – Sababurg The Real Sleeping Beauty Castle - Right Out of the Fairytale The Sababurg Castle was built in 1334, near the town of Hofgeismar. Purportedly this is the real McCoy – the original true Sleeping Beauty Castle...

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Learning to Make a Real Celtic or Medieval Bow

Learning to choose exactly the right kind of wood for a bow at Ronneburg Bogenbau  Anybody can buy or mail-order a sword from an online replica shop. They're nice, but somehow all the same. But, if you want to go back in time, and get the "real" Celtic/Medieval feeling about making one of the most deadly and precise weapons of all time, there is nothing better than learning how make an original bow from an Expert. Meet...

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Learn All About Making Knights' Armor - Up Close

One of the things Days of Yore Travel does is to take you up close to the Middle Ages. Instead of touring a museum and staring at suits of armor behind glass cases, you can meet an artisan smith and watch him create real armor, just like in the Middle Ages. Meet Peter Müller from the Plattnerwerkstatt in Orschweier. He is one of the last people in Europe who smiths suits of armor exactly like they did in the Middle...

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