Ruin of a castle, on a rock, high above the Danube river valley, in Lower Austria, an hour's drive from Vienna. Dürnstein can also be reached easily by train and by boat. "The royal prisoner was permitted to receive travelling singers (Troubadours) for his entertainment. This is likely where the saga of the singer Blondel comes from. The story says that the King’s faithful minnesinger travelled from castle to castle until he found him in Dürnstein by singing a refrain, which the prisoner sang back. Richard the Lionheart was released after the payment of a ransom of 150,000 silver marks." https://www.duernstein.at/en/about-duernstein/the-ruin-of-duernstein
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Ruin of Dürnstein Castle
Richard the Lionheart
was imprisoned there, in 1192 *
Wachau Valley, Lower Austria
Image © Merisi Vienna
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