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9th Century Castle Restoration Fail
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"Nowadays it seems people want everything to be brand new. It doesn’t matter what it is, as long as it looks expensive and new. This idea even goes for ancient buildings and castles. Who would ever think to remodel an ancient castle with new architecture?

Well, someone in Spain did just that. A 9th-century Spanish castle was recently remodeled and has been dubbed as the world’s worst restoration project by the locals who have to look at the eyesore daily. They have described the restoration as a wreck."

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That is puzzling. It appears they used intact corner stones to repair part of the one walls with missing blocks, then used concrete where the corner stones were stolen from. WTF?




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That is puzzling. It appears they used intact corner stones to repair part of the one walls with missing blocks, then used concrete where the corner stones were stolen from. WTF?


Haha, yeah it's so strange. What were they thinking??




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Eh I'm fine with restoration to an extent. But if you damage any bit of the original item to "restore" it, example: even just repainting something if it already has some original paint, even just a little bit of paint, you are ruining its historical value.

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< Reply # 4 on 4/13/2016 7:26 PM >
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I'm surprisingly ok with this. While there is a certain charm and historical significance, the guy bought the place and he can do whatever the hell he wants with it. Old fortresses and castles have been "remodeled" or repurposed for centuries. Do you think anyone in early 20th century England gave a shit when someone bought a castle and installed electricity or added buildings to the interior? Yes this place looks horrible but honestly it was pretty much just a pile of rocks beforehand. If the place was truly important than the state or preservation groups should have stepped in and taken or bought it themselves. I say tough shit!




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I'm surprisingly ok with this. While there is a certain charm and historical significance, the guy bought the place and he can do whatever the hell he wants with it. Old fortresses and castles have been "remodeled" or repurposed for centuries. Do you think anyone in early 20th century England gave a shit when someone bought a castle and installed electricity or added buildings to the interior? Yes this place looks horrible but honestly it was pretty much just a pile of rocks beforehand. If the place was truly important than the state or preservation groups should have stepped in and taken or bought it themselves. I say tough shit!


In many EU countries you can not alter historic structures, not even window frames. This mess puts the absurdity of those laws in prospective. They actually destroyed the some of the most significant parts of the structure to "restore" it. It looked better before... now it is meaningless.




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Yeah, what's the point in restoring something if it looks absolutely nothing like the original??




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To be fair, the original "structure" was all but incomprehensible. Looks to me like the only thing left was a few pieces of a wall - hardly enough to perform any sort of meaningful restoration. Sure, someone with unlimited funds and the desire to throw fistfuls of money at this could *possibly* have re-built the structure based on historical documentation of what it *may* have looked like, but there wasn't really much to go by.

If the choice is "keep whatever crumbling parts of the wall are still there and work it into your new design" or "tear the whole thing down and start from scratch", I'd choose the first option, but that's just me.

Alternatively the owner could have done nothing and just waited until the rest of the wall fell into a big pile. I don't think that would have been preferable.




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To be fair, the original "structure" was all but incomprehensible. Looks to me like the only thing left was a few pieces of a wall - hardly enough to perform any sort of meaningful restoration. Sure, someone with unlimited funds and the desire to throw fistfuls of money at this could *possibly* have re-built the structure based on historical documentation of what it *may* have looked like, but there wasn't really much to go by.

If the choice is "keep whatever crumbling parts of the wall are still there and work it into your new design" or "tear the whole thing down and start from scratch", I'd choose the first option, but that's just me.

Alternatively the owner could have done nothing and just waited until the rest of the wall fell into a big pile. I don't think that would have been preferable.


I'm in favor of a big pile of stone rather than an adulterated eyesore.
Since it's now damaged to the point were restoration is completely impractical if not impossible, he been better off making a house with the stone.
It bares little resemblance to the original -historic- structure in form or construction.

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The "restorer" is claiming that concrete was used to fill in missing portions to restore structural integrity and differentiate the new from the original. Although it doesn't seem to be the case. Sounds good, but the pictures tell the truth... and the truth in this case is damn ugly.



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I think one of the articles I read said that instead of hiring a company that specializes in historic restoration they just grabbed a local company who probably had little to no idea what they were doing!




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Looks like a huge washing machine.




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Looks like a huge washing machine.


Lol that's exactly what went through my head at first.




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Looks like a huge washing machine.


Too funny. I think you're on to something...
All it needs now is a Maytag, tag
Even Andy Warhol might have approved of it then.




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Yeah, this pisses me off - I love the look of the original structure and now it looks utterly hideous. How in the hell is this "restoring" anything?




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