Italy · Restored
Tirol Castle
Tyrol Castle (Schloss Tirol/Castel Tirolo) is a medieval hilltop fortress above the Köstengraben gorge near Merano in South Tyrol, Italy, historically the ancestral seat of the Counts of Tyrol. The site preserves a tall keep, a long residential range, a chapel with notable frescos and Romanesque portals, and now houses the South Tyrolean Museum of History and an adjacent falconry.
First raised
1100
Its prime
1275
Today
Restored
As it stood in 1275
The shape it held in its prime.
Perched on a steep limestone crag above a wooded gorge, the castle presents a long rectangular palas with a low red-tiled pitched roof and regularly spaced windows, a tall square stone keep with a steep pyramidal tiled roof at the eastern end, and curtain walls stepping down the rocky slope. Stone is pale grey local masonry; terraces and small defensive towers connect the ranges. The chapel and ornate Romanesque portals sit against the inner courtyard; the site is complete and inhabited at its prime.
Step inside
7 places to explore in 1275.
The record describes 7 distinct spots at Tirol Castle — including 2 interiors: castle chapel with frescoes and apse, museum exhibition rooms in the palas. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more rooms of the immersive experience.
Create History
See Tirol Castle with the fires lit.
The artist rebuilds it as it stood in 1275 — a photoreal walk that belongs to you alone. Pay with coins, no subscription needed.
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