I cycle past this often. It’s quite run down and not open to the public. It’s too bad because it looks great from the outside.
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Not a big fan of the postpro (I use to like more natural images), but the castle is sick! Can it be visited without a car easily? I’m reading over 2 hours walking distance from Bilbao here…
Beautiful!
It has a funny story behind.
The owner was a not-so-important noble that for some reason wanted a fairytale castle at the place where his family had more like a tower house.
So they built on the space available and now you have something beautiful, that looks like a castle…but it is not comfortable at all, because the rooms are tiny and only one person fits into the little towers 🙂
The new owners have been trying to sell it for some years without success.
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I cycle past this often. It’s quite run down and not open to the public. It’s too bad because it looks great from the outside.
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Not a big fan of the postpro (I use to like more natural images), but the castle is sick! Can it be visited without a car easily? I’m reading over 2 hours walking distance from Bilbao here…
Beautiful!
It has a funny story behind.
The owner was a not-so-important noble that for some reason wanted a fairytale castle at the place where his family had more like a tower house.
So they built on the space available and now you have something beautiful, that looks like a castle…but it is not comfortable at all, because the rooms are tiny and only one person fits into the little towers 🙂
The new owners have been trying to sell it for some years without success.
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castillo_de_Butr%C3%B3n
they should restore it into a museum or something, at least some maintenance.
I am from Spain and the Castle os epic
Visited once in 2008. According to this interview it was completed in the 20th century although its foundations are medieval. See inside here: https://www.eitb.eus/es/television/programas/que-me-estas-contando/videos/detalle/5430758/video-nadie-quiere-comprar-castillo-butron-gatika/