Ok, what made me pick out Brielle as a place to visit rather than any other little Dutch town?
(photograph © Kiwidutch)
Well, I thought it would be nice to scout out a place that we could explore on foot maybe next summer that would be close enough to home to do as a day trip but still have something special to see.
The something special in Brielle’s case is that this town is also a star fortress and I’ve taken some photos in Google maps to show you how the town looks from above.
I am always in total awe of the engineers of centuries past who managed to put together such amazing defensive patterns, so geometrically precise on such a large scale and all without “technology”as we enjoy it today and without the power of flight to look down on their handiwork.
I think that their skill, ability and insight was amazing and probably since architects today are used to having technology do much of the number crunching, I think that building one of these from scratch these days without these aids might be a task beyond any on the profession today.
The symmetry is amazing… lets take a look…
(photograph © Kiwidutch)
tunning or what? This is just the view from the car! Roll on restored mobility, I’m really looking forward to walking the whole way around this next Summer!
(photograph © Kiwidutch)
(photograph © Kiwidutch)
(photograph © Kiwidutch)
Check out the thickness of the walls at the entrance gate…
(photograph © Kiwidutch)
(photograph © Kiwidutch)
I don’t know if you’ve visited Naarden before but it is also a rather impressive example of a star fortress (there’s even a fortress museum there, which my dad *had* to see; my mom & I wandered around Naarden while he was at the Vestingmuseum
). The google map of Naarden: http://g.co/maps/cdqcz
Comment by Carrie — October 18, 2011 @ 2:39 am |