🏰 Concentration of castles in Europe.
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Castile literally comes from “land of castles”, but apparently you see an empty Spain, also it’s a fact that just by going by road, every half hour you cross a castle. This is bcs in France any noble house or country house is considered a castle and in Spain not. 🇫🇷🇪🇸

Nov 5, 2025 · 12:41 PM UTC

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Replying to @SergInvictus @Civixplorer
Castilla is a former kingdom, now a region of spain. Castellano was their dialect, it became what's known today as "Spanish". You're right about the etymology. I'm from France AND this region. I can assure you that France has a higher castle density than Spain generally speaking.
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Probably yes, due among other things to the fact that France was more fragmented in different states and principalities (which gives rise to everyone having their castles). But that difference figure so exaggerated is due to what was explained above
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Replying to @SergInvictus @Civixplorer
According to this website there are only 10k castles in Spain, while there are 45k in France, because as you said, they're considered "forts" I wonder if Spain and Portugal have to start considering their manor houses and quintas as castles too xn--castillosdeespaa-lub.es/…

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Es que si nos ponemos a considerar a cualquier pazo, palacio o casa de campo como “castillo”, nosotros también sumaríamos un montón
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Replying to @SergInvictus @Civixplorer
wrong ☝️🤓 in france we call the noble houses "manoirs", castles are for royalty
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And that’s why you call a 19th century mansion “chateau” because it has a fence
Replying to @SergInvictus @Civixplorer
Sympa le château de sable à droite
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A real stonework castle on top of a mountain and with many more centuries of antiquity than the 1880’s mansions that you call “chateau”
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Replying to @SergInvictus @Civixplorer
Not every half hour but every 10 minutes
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Por generalizar, que en lo profundo de la Meseta literal cada 10 minutos por ciertas zonas cruzas un castillo diferente
Replying to @SergInvictus @Civixplorer
Cry fucking Spaniards
Calla nebro
Replying to @SergInvictus @Civixplorer
Yes, we have fortified castles and pleasure castles. C'est la vie
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The one on the left is a castle, the one on the right is a palace. They are not the same things
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Replying to @SergInvictus @Civixplorer
France has 45 000 château of which 13 000 are castles, forts, and Spain has 2500.
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Even if you only take castle with fortification in France, there are 13000 castles compare to 2500 in Spain…
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Castile has an exaggerated name, as is always the case in Spain
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Peñafiel 🥰
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