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    Schallaburg Castle, Austria



    Schallaburg Castle, Austria.


    Schallaburg Renaissance Castle is 5 kilometres (3 mi) from Melk, in the region known as Mostviertel. The central part of the castle was built in the German Renaissance Age, beginning around 1540, by the Losenstein dynasty.



    The large arcade courtyard of the castle Schallaburg.


    The castle is combination of a Romanesque residential castle and a Gothic chapel, patterned in the Italian Renaissance style. The decorations are in terracotta mosaic depicting mythological figures, gods, masks and human beings and animals; a legendary mythical figurine here is known as Hundefräulein (a female human figure with a dog’s head).



    The gate passage to the castle Schallaburg.


    At the gate entrance to the castle, there are two large "smoke-spewing dragons", each 30 metres (98 ft) long and 6 metres (20 ft) high, which is a favourite entertainment spot for the children to slide down its mouth from the top. Its culturally rich Mannerist gardens have roses, ornamental trees and bushes and herbs planted in the gardens in the town, and two Renaissance apple orchards. (Wikipedia)



    The southeast view of the castle Schallaburg.




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