Smolenice

Some views of Smolenice castle.

From the balcony near the dining hall:
smol1_frombalc

From the same balcony, I believe Kruschev stayed in this room when visiting Slovakia (the filename says “Brezhnev” because I had them mixed up):
smol13_brezhnev

The main tower of Smolenice castle:
smol7_maintower

The main gate:
smol11_gate

The entrance hall:
smol2_entrhall

A balcony near our room:
smol4_curtains

An external view of same:
smol12_balcony_ext

From the main courtyard, one of the flanks of the main building:
smol5_buildingedge

There were some short, squat towers with roofs that looked like wizard hats. I made several attempts at getting these right.
smol3_wizard_from_window

smol6_wizard2

smol8_wizard3

smol10_wizard4

Some stairs in the courtyard going down to another level:
smol9_stairs