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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue439" data-source="post: 829294" data-attributes="member: 53455">Building a Mediæval castle in the 21st century (2016)Guédelon in Burgundy is a special place: it is where, since 1995, the project to build a Mediæval castle, with period techniques, tools and materials, began.Construction has been going for three decades now. Of course, they don’t go very fast —it is safe to say that, with at most 40 workers on–site, they even go quite slowly, but that’s because they receive visitors and rake in entry fees and other assorted expenses, and probably think that most of that money will dry up once the castle is built and can only compete with “genuine” ones, with no particular added value...We visited the site in 2016 and it is indeed very interesting to see those modern–day workers using (almost) only period tools, materials and techniques... Of course, a keen eye (and even more so a Mediævalist’s) will spot a few not–so–Mediæval aids being used here and there (the funniest one I spotted was a laser pointer being used in lieu of a level), but in the whole, it is a fairly honest representation of what building a castle in the Middle Ages would have involved. Very educational, especially for kids.Nikon D810, Nikkor 24mm, ƒ/1.4 G lens, handheld.[ATTACH=full]415505[/ATTACH]</blockquote>