 Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm in the Latvian town of Segulda. That's the town's new castle there in this video We're gonna have a look at the town's old castle If you want to see my walk around the rest of the town including going on Latvia's only cable car across the river Then have a look at link on screen now in that video. I'll show you the rest of the town But in this video, we're gonna have a look around the castle. I decided I was quite a lot to see here So it deserved a video in its own right So what actually happened what I came through here? That's the ticket office. That's the toilet. So I just paid to go in it cost me two euros to go into this room And then I literally went down there to start the video and because I'd like to look at the bridge So the new castle there. This is the old castle now parts of it have been Reconstructed this is the gatehouse. It's not all original We'll see inside which parts they've reconstructed the castle itself dates back to about 1207 I understand. Oh, yeah, there's a model of it. That's what we're gonna see in a minute So you in there go up to top But if we go into here first see some more of the ruins We'll have a look around though that part of the ruins in a minute There's a couple of interpretation boards over here, which will show us what the castle would have once looked like so We have just come well, we were technically down there and was just coming to here I don't know how well it's showing on camera And you can see that and that's the great hall. So There's a lot of information there. It was the headquarters of the Livonian brothers of the sword That's the main when the castle was built between 1207-1209. Admittedly I am reading that off there. It was abandoned during what was called the Northern War in 1700 So there's another tower over there. We're gonna go back into this tower You can see how the reconstructed part of In wood part of the battle room. So let's go around there We'll go up right up to the top both towers. Have a good look around. It is really really calm. It's probably about minus five minus six Minus ten tonight. So, yeah, it's cold day, but it's a nice day and it's good fun for exploring castles Let's go up here. The stairs continue up there We'll do that in a minute Let's go in here Here They've reconstructed the port coast. The port coast would go down to stop anyone who was unwelcome from coming into the castle There's a giant throne. I suppose you can sit there and pitch there Don't you worry about that. Let's go further up the tower So that's where We've just come from down there. We're going up there There's little bits of snow on the stairs. So The building isn't locked up at night As in The windows are open. So it's still really a ruin, but they've put these stairs in so you can go inside Get to here Little cannon there So yeah, they've reconstructed this So we get to here. I'll look at this. There's a picture there That's this building Well, it's a complete ruin So I think if you look at this You can see These windows aren't original. I think this is the newer side That's the original side So here, this is all new, but it's nice They've reconstructed parts of it so we can Have a look around Up here now It's very cold in here. It's not a place Go to keep warm I'm going to have to find someone to get a tea or coffee after this, but it's definitely worth it We've just come into this big room up here and uh That looks actually quite inviting to sit on this Wow This is nice and comfortable If it wasn't so cold, it feels like you would sleep up here, but Maybe in the summer Great fun having like a big medieval banquet up here Now we're going to go back down Not all the way down the way we came Because we can get out into the battlements And we'll have a look at the castle From there on another reconstructed part of the castle And then we'll go over to the other tower Where we should get some really quite nice views over the valley So that'll be quite exciting Okay, so here and into daylight. Now look at this It's actually quite impressive wooden structure in itself This reconstructed battlement So imagine during times of war Men stood here, their bows and arrows firing out over there Of course the new castle wouldn't have been there Today There's a ton of weapons There's a few icicles which have come up Looking out, hanging there You get a nice view across the castle So you can see the ruins of the great hall there And then there's the tower I appreciate the sun is under Light exposure is not very good And because it's so white with snow It's not really working, is it? Let's go down We'll go down there though And I'll be able to show it to you properly I think this is quite a nice structure I do like this wooden structure Just wish it was a bit warmer My hands, once I'm finished making this video Are going to be frozen to the camera, I think If you have a look Look at that All this snow that's blowing to here And then There's the ruin of the great hall This will take us down So really, if they hadn't done a lot of this reconstruction There'd just be a few sort of fragmentary ruins I think you can see difference there Look, so that's the original, I think That's been reported That's probably the reconstruction So you can see, you know They've kind of done this to give you a better idea Of what the castle would have been like So we're down here now That's the great hall It's fenced off though I won't go in through that arch Yeah, that looks reconstructed as well So the only thing I do find a bit hard is It's quite hard to work out What is actually historic and what's a rebuild But at least is a ruin of the castle Here, we'll go up those steps And we'll be able to see the other side We'll see into the great hall So the river Which I I'm going to put the river's name on screen now Because I'm not sure how to pronounce it It's directly down there So we'll see the gorge And that's what I said, it's a cable car Which takes you across, which I did in the other video I've gone up these steps now So we're up there moment ago And up in those battlements I'm going up up here now This is fairly obviously a mountain I was trying to push in through here So we can get up to have a look into the great hall It looks like that over there They effectively built like a theater So perhaps in, I think in the summer They have concerts and everything in the castle So there we go That's the interior of the great hall I suspect we'll see when we get there That it looks as though There's been a flaw about where my hand is And that there's been a big great hall There are banquets, medieval dances Everything that happened in there The path has kind of abrupted the ends there But they're going to one day make a path around there I don't know Starting to see See how we're kind of on a bit of a We've got the gorge all around us Let's go over to the tower though The big tower And that's where we should get some really nice views over the gorge If you would like to come visit the gorge It's about an hour by train from Riga So I'm staying in Riga Also made a few videos there in Riga And today will probably be nice to come for a little day out Get away from the city for a bit It's a lovely city Riga But I like to get away from it for a bit But we'll come out to this town Sagoda I read about it, it sounded really nice It is really nice They say it's that via Switzerland It certainly doesn't have the altitude of Switzerland It's clearly got the snow like Switzerland And I suppose the scenery could be reminiscent of it I don't know how well it comes picking out But over there's one of the other castles There were three castles in this triangle Two on the other side of the river The other castle which belonged to the Archbishop of Latvia There's not much to see of that one But we did see that one in my Sagoda video I had a look around the ruins of that castle So we're now heading down across What would have been sort of the Bailey of the castle Towards this other tower So imagine what we see over there at wall There'd have probably been a wall like that all the way around And there probably would have been another tower in the corner At least to sort of got to just sort of using my imagination To try and you know tell you how the castle would have looked Now this again is a ruin You can see I feel a wooden structure So that wooden structure there is not medieval I think it's a ruin They built the structure inside To enable us to go up to the top And have a look at the views Which I think is quite good So if you want to imagine what it looked like Pretend that's not there That's what it looked like So as I say I quite like how they have You know constructed these parts inside Giving us the opportunity to go up the towers Rather than just stand and look at the ruins So here we are inside now There's a lift in here This is out of order So we're going to have to walk We've got a lot of walking up I'm not going to count steps But a lot of wooden steps to walk up This is quite fun One thing I always find in Eastern Europe Northern Europe They love their lookout towers It's not something we have a great deal of in the UK I mean this is a bit different because this is a castle But quite often you're out for a walk in Eastern Europe And on the top of the hill there will be a lookout tower Which I wish we did more of in the UK But it's nice to enjoy it here So see when you get to here You've got the wall But we'll start to see the view now Where the chunk has disappeared So looking out That's looking out across the gorge The cable car runs across there We'll see more though When we get to the top We can go right to the top like pretty much Up into the loft And we'll just see some views We're kind of on the What's the top now of the masonry ruins And you can now see the wooden structure See how it now juts out To give us that Big balcony on top So I think we've got one more No we've got two more floors At least two more floors Which is pretty No this is just This is the penultimate floor So this is the biggest floor But we can go into the loft as well So we stand here You can see the rest of the castle So we were up there to start with the cave in And look at the great hall This gives you an idea Of the river valley here We're in this castle We are actually in this tiny little tower here Looks really tiny There's the castle over there on the other side of the river And that one That's the one I looked at There's only really this little bit here left That tiny bit there Is all that's left I looked at that in my Segorda video So the other castle is just there The light's not working I appreciate So let's see if we can see Here the light will show us the river There you go Now I don't know how obvious it is There's actually massive massive pieces of ice Flowing down the river And when I was in the cable car I could see them breaking up as they went over The over the rapids There was a bridge down there as well So you can walk if you want to We're now coming to the very top This is the top we're in the loft Look We're up in the loft There's a view across the castle And then here's the view looking that way Again the other castle is completely hidden behind the trees It is over there And then a view looking down to the river And one final view from the loft of this castle Looking out right across the gorge So I hope you enjoyed this video Thank you very much for watching Please do feel free to like, subscribe And comment and from the old castle at Segorda Fantastic 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