Hohenwerfen Fortress

PLACEHOLDER — one line on why this place is worth the detour, under 180 characters.

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Getting there

[Train, bus, car, parking. Concrete. This is the part readers screenshot.]

The history, told as a story

[Not a Wikipedia extract. One thread — a siege, a prisoner, a family that lost it — and follow it.]

What it is actually like

[The queue. The wind on the walk up. What the light does. This is the part nobody else writes and the reason someone reads your post instead of the official site.]

Nearby

[Other places, where to stay, where to eat.]

Photographs

The inner courtyard, empty in early morning — Get there for opening — by eleven the courtyard is full.

The path climbing from the car park to the gate — The walk up: twenty minutes, steep. The lift costs extra and is worth it in August.

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