#fortresses — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #fortresses, aggregated by home.social.
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Dear Lovely Peeps - especially you lot who love to go wandering around old places dreaming of #history - here's a handy-dandy guide to your next day out:
'A free interactive map of the world's great #castles, #fortresses, and #palaces — 3,709 landmarks across 131 countries, each with its photo, founding century and story.
How it is made - Everything on this #map comes from open data: facts, coordinates & founding dates from Wikidata, photographs from Wikimedia Commons, stories from Wikipedia, and the basemap from OpenFreeMap and Natural Earth.
The atlas is curated, not exhaustive: the 3,709 most significant landmarks worldwide, ordered by a fame ranking that blends Wikipedia coverage with real readership.'
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Spotted in my Calishat Snaps: The Castle Map. From the About page: “A free interactive night map of the world’s great castles, fortresses and palaces — 3,693 landmarks across 131 countries, each with its photo, founding century and story. No ads, no accounts.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/22/the-castle-map/ -
'The Sovereign Individual' - The winner-takes-all
"Across its 400 pages, The Sovereign Individual celebrates the instincts of our impossibly wealthy technofeudal overlords to accumulate, hoard and insulate themselves from the messier demands of mass democracy...This libertarian manifesto, loved by Peter Thiel, urges a ‘cognitive elite’ to see selfishness as a virtue."
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https://theconversation.com/this-libertarian-manifesto-loved-by-peter-thiel-urges-a-cognitive-elite-to-see-selfishness-as-a-virtue-263742
#society #civility #individualism #PublicSphere #surveillance #TechIndustry #fortresses #violence #VibeShift #SocialDarwinism #book -
The White Lady’s Bullet-Scarred Wall in Bender, Moldova
A haunted outpost in Moldova, where guards are said to have fired at a ghostly figure.#ghoststories #ghosts #fortresses #section-Atlas
The White Lady’s Bullet-Scarred Wall -
Umm Al Quwain Wall in Umm Al Quwain, United Arab Emirates
A 19th-century defensive wall that once protected the settlement from invaders.#fortresses #military #walls #section-Atlas
Umm Al Quwain Wall -
Seyigazi Türbesi in Seyitgazi, Turkey
A hilltop fortress full of tombs, including one for legendary hero Seyyid Battal Gazi.#islam #fortresses #tombs #section-Atlas
Seyigazi Türbesi -
Castellum Hoge Woerd in Utrecht, Netherlands
This recreated Roman outpost stands above its buried predecessor.#rivers #ships #military #militaryhistory #castles #restoration #fortresses #unesco #roman #section-Atlas
Castellum Hoge Woerd -
Aljaferia Palace in Zaragoza, Spain
This 11th-century fortress is now the seat of Aragon’s state legislature.#medieval #fortresses #palaces #section-Atlas
Aljaferia Palace -
Mega-Fortresses In The South Caucasus - New Data From Southern Georgia
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https://www.cranfield.ac.uk/press/news-2025/mega-fortress-in-the-southern-caucasus <-- technical article
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https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.197 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #fortress #fortresses #Caucasus #Mountains #Georgia #spatialanalysis #drone #remotesensing #prehistory #DmanisisGora #orthophotos #orthoimagery #archaeology #steppe #structures #DEM #LiDAR #topography #manmade #stone #buildings #graves #settlement #ColdWar #spysatellite #agriculture #BronzeAge #IronAge #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal -
Il-Gardjola Guard Tower in Senglea, Malta
The eyes and ears of this tower keep watch over Malta’s Grand Harbor.#fortresses #history&culture #towers #section-Atlas
Il-Gardjola Guard Tower -
Olavinlinna in Savonlinna, Finland
This island castle now hosts a world-famous opera festival.#festivals #history&culture #opera #fortresses #castles #section-Atlas
Olavinlinna -
Afyonkarahisar Castle in Afyonkarahisar, Turkey
This 3,000-year-old “opium black fortress” towers over the ancient town named after it.#fortresses #hiking #roman #ottoman #drugs #castles #section-Atlas
Afyonkarahisar Castle -
‘Madbasa’ in Karbabad, Bahrain
This underground art installation recreates an ancient date honey storeroom.#honey #dates #fortresses #forts #archeology #section-Atlas #section-GastroPlace
‘Madbasa’ -
Fetislam Fortress in Kladovo, Serbia
One of the most important fortresses along the Danube now lies in ruins.#fortresses #abandoned #ruins #section-Atlas
Fetislam Fortress -
Tarout Castle in Tarout, Saudi Arabia
This former Portuguese defensive fort atop a hill has been occupied for thousands of years.#fortresses #ruins #history&culture #section-Atlas
Tarout Castle -
Krusevac Fortress in Kruševac, Serbia
The medieval fortress of Prince Lazar of Serbia is now an archaeological park.#history&culture #fortresses #architecture #section-Atlas
Krusevac Fortress -
Mileševac Fortress in Hisardžik, Serbia
This medieval fortress guards a monastery near the border of Serbia and Montenegro.#history&culture #monasteries #forts #fortresses #section-Atlas
Mileševac Fortress -
Danebury Hillfort in Stockbridge, England
One of the most studied Iron Age settlements in Europe.#history&culture #history #farms #paganism #sacredspaces #ironage #forts #fortresses #section-Atlas
Danebury Hillfort -
Hammershus Castle Ruins in Allinge, Denmark
Northern Europe’s largest castle ruins sit precariously on an island cliffside.#ruins #forts #fortresses #castles #section-Atlas
Hammershus Castle Ruins -
Spåkenes Coastal Fort in Rotsund, Norway
The gnarled remains of an exploded German bunker from World War II sit along a breathtaking fjord.#fortresses #forts #ruins #nature #fjords #worldwarii #germany #nazis #section-Atlas
Spåkenes Coastal Fort -
Fort Clinch in Fernandina Beach, Florida
Used as a military post in three different engagements, this fort has remained incomplete and unfired upon for nearly 200 years.#spanish-americanwar #fortresses #parks #military #militaryhistory #forts #civilwar #section-Atlas
Fort Clinch -
Fort Michelangelo in Civitavecchia, Italy
The famous sculptor had a hand in this imposing fortress.#renaissance #military #forts #fortresses #section-Atlas
Fort Michelangelo -
Kvareli Fortress Football Pitch in Kvareli, Georgia
This medieval fortress is (or was till 2017) the home stadium of the football club FC Duruji Kvareli.#soccer #sports #fortresses #section-Atlas
Kvareli Fortress Football Pitch -
Premontre Monastery Church of Zsámbék in Zsámbék, Hungary
The remains of a 13th-century Romanesque church lie abandoned on a hillside.#forts #fortresses #ruins #medieval #monasteries #churches #section-Atlas
Premontre Monastery Church of Zsámbék -
Khanzad Castle in Banaman, Iraq
The legendary fortress of a female Kurdish warrior leader.#womenshistory #fortresses #castles #history&culture #section-Atlas
Khanzad Castle -
Doboj Fortress in Doboj, Bosnia and Herzegovina
A military fort has guarded the surrounding area from this key position since the 13th century.#militaryhistory #military #forts #fortresses #section-Atlas
Doboj Fortress -
And 10 places to wait out a (fictional) undead apocalypse.#aoloveshalloween #halloween #subterranean #fortresses #bunkers #science #animals #mushrooms #food #zombies #archiveofwonder #section-Articles
5 Creepy Tales of Real-World Zombies -
Hissar Fort Stairs in Pune, India
One of the last few remnants of an ancient fort which once stood in the oldest area of Pune.#stairs #fortresses #history&culture #section-Atlas
Hissar Fort Stairs -
Feroz Shah Kotla in New Delhi, India
The ruins of a medieval citadel believed to be haunted by a ministry of wish-granting djinns.#mosques #legends #folklore #fortresses #history&culture #section-Atlas
Feroz Shah Kotla