点评:Blandy is first fortified by the viscounts Guillaume II and Adam III of Melun around 1220. They erect a semi-circular curtain wall, strenghtened by four towers.
In the fourteenth century the fortress is enlarged : Its curtain walls are heightened and extended, a gatehouse with drawbridge and four new towers including a keep are added.
From 1707 onwards marshall de Villars transforms the castle of Blandy into a farm, modifying or destroying buildings in the courtyard and filling in the moat. The edifice is gradually abandoned and falls to ruin.
The stronghold is acquired by the department counsel of Seine and Marne in 1992 and has been restored since.
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The fortress of Blandy is very picturesque and its curtain walls and the parapet of its keep offer fine views of the surrounding area, including several other preserved medieval buildings (like the church).
Part of its curtain walls can be scaled and the interior of the keep and two smaller towers is accessible.
Sadly, apart from a short history in the room next to the entrance and a scale model very little information is available for the visitor. There are no reconstruction drawings of the gutted gatebuilding or of the lost buildings in the courtyard. On the day of our visit there was only a guided tour for children and its focus was life in the middle ages rather than the history and layout of the castle.
Equally regrettable there is no shelter against the sun in the courtyard and there is no tavern for visitors inside the walls.
Blandy is certainly worth a stop when you are in the area and is guaranteed to provide you with some fine pictures but as a history buff I was left hungry.
翻译:大约在1220年,梅吕的纪尧姆二世和亚当三世两位子爵首次对布兰迪城堡进行加固。他们修建了一道半圆形城墙,并配以四座塔楼来加固防御。
14世纪时,城堡得到进一步扩建:城墙被加高并延长,还增建了带有吊桥的城门楼以及包括主塔在内的四座新塔楼。
从1707年起,维拉尔元帅将布兰迪城堡改造成农场,他拆除或改造了庭院内的建筑,并填平了护城河。这座建筑逐渐被人遗弃,最终沦为废墟。
1992年,塞纳-马恩省的政府法律顾问购得了这座要塞,此后便开始对其进行修复。
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布兰迪要塞风景如画,其城墙与主塔楼的护墙能让人饱览周围景色,包括其他几座保存完好的中世纪建筑(比如教堂)。
部分城墙可以攀爬,主塔楼及两座小塔楼的内部也允许进入。
遗憾的是……除了入口旁的展厅里有一小段历史介绍以及一个比例模型外,游客能获取的信息少之又少。目前没有任何关于被毁的城门楼或庭院中已消失建筑的复原图纸。我们到访当日,仅有一场面向儿童的导览活动,其重点是中世纪的生活状况,而非城堡的历史与布局。同样令人遗憾的是,庭院里没有遮阳处,城墙内也没有供游客光顾的酒馆。
当你来到这一带时,布兰迪绝对值得一游,这里定能为你拍下不少漂亮的照片。不过作为一名历史爱好者,我还是觉得意犹未尽。