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it shows the plural, un chapeau, des chapeaux -> one hat, hats
But you don’t pronounce it and in your example you know it’s plural without the x. I would say it’s technical debt but rest assured that the language is alive and will eventually drop the x. Perhaps we will have a s instead of a x first.
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There is a lot of stuff missing. I'm from a region in Germany where every other village has it's own castle, ruin or palace. There needs to be some selection, otherwise it's just more overwhelming. Therefore I do like the map, and it's very good imho that there is some tier-selector to pick out the good ones.
In our tiny little village of 2000 people, we have 4 small castles (chateaux). Next one also has some. So does next one. Its fine if its not exhaustive list. All major I could think of in few european countries I could find with all info correctly. Thank you for this effort, much appreciated.
You could add the facility for visitors to add their own locations or submit them for review. That way the people who "know something is missing" can add it themselves.
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The trouble is that the definition of "castle" varies considerably between countries. For instance, the German classification divides them into "Schloss" and "Burg", but these can include anything from earthworks to barely present ruined remains of a foundation to buildings that resemble a larger than average house. French classification - under the term "chateau" and its subdivisions - is even more generous. Compare…
The importance of the definition is to actually save the castles. For example in Lower Silesia in Poland, which was Germany, and Czech before, there where about 2000 Castles (Schloss's). Now many of these castles lay in ruins. By only including the popular ones like this map does it means the less famous ones will become even less popular, and a piece of history will disappear.
Interesting but very difficult to perform in the right way. Example: Italy has maybe 45k buildings that could show on that map https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categoria:Castelli_d%27Italia but they can't be collected by looking at the English Wikipedia so it's almost empty compared to what could be. Other countries, same problem. Somebody suggested in other comments that the data could be from OpenStreetMap. Or let peo…
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Makes things more difficult for foreigners. The French consider this a feature.
Telling that "eau" is just "o" for pronunciation confuse foreigners even more. Some of then even thinks you are mocking them.
Hi thanks for the feedback and thank you Marklit to submit it here! Thecastlemap.com is one of the websites I operate. I also operate trainrouter.com, sunshineatlas.com. and europebeachmap.com. Honestly, I did not want to focus too much on this website due to what I thought of a market of low demand. However, there are so many critical comments. Hence, I will fix it properly and this will be one of the websites I wil…
It sucks that I cannot properly communicate because feedback is spread on the internet, which is making it really hard to address them.
Therefore I will put my X account here for those who are interested: https://x.com/Flightmussy
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Bro. The Acropolis is a temple.
"Bro", the Parthenon is a temple. The Acropolis is a citadel . The Acropolis of Athens (Ancient Greek: ἡ Ἀκρόπολις τῶν Ἀθηνῶν, romanized: hē Akropolis tōn Athēnōn; Modern Greek: Ακρόπολη Αθηνών, romanized: Akrópoli Athinón) is an ancient citadel located on a rocky outcrop above the city of Athens, Greece, and contains the remains of several ancient buildings of great architectural and historical significance, the mos…