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https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zitadelle_Spandau (German Wikipedia has nice images)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spandau_Citadel (English, pretty short)
PS: It ~400 Years old, had been redesigned into a bastion fort at same point and doubled as a prison later on.
If someone happen to care, there is a small bastion fort in Berlin (small as it only has 4 bastions): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zitadelle_Spandau (German Wikipedia has nice images) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spandau_Citadel (English, pretty short) PS: It ~400 Years old, had been redesigned into a bastion fort at same point and doubled as a prison later on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forte_Spagnolo,_L%27Aquila
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forte_spagnolo (the Italian wiki has some additional photos)
I currently live 10 minutes by bike from a village that still has its star defense structures standing, and there's a nice walking path around part of it. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IJzendijke#/media/File:IJzendi...
There are also several towns in this country which still have impressive walls and gates. I still admire them when I see them.
It's fascinating how advances in siege technology resemble fast Darwinian evolution until of course the bigger fish in planes and tanks come in and eat everything else up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesco_bastion
Thanks to the wars in Afghanistan the founder got rich enough to buy Segway. Then he drove off a cliff in his Segway ending his life.
Camp Bastion in Afghanistan is a big base that is named after the HESCO Bastions it is made of:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Shorabak
There is a surprising amount of money to be made in making containers for rocks, making black plastic bags for refuse and other things where you would not imagine a fortune could be made. As per the HESCO example it is a gruff Northerner with a 'where there is muck there is brass' attitude that inevitably exploits the potential. Shame about the Segway incident though.
