 Hello, thank you for joining me. I'm in a forest above the Hungarian city of Sopron. We're climbing up into the hills. We're looking for a fake castle somewhere up here. There's a whole castle But it's not the ancient castle it seems. Let's continue up the path and let's go and find this unusual place. After walking up through the woods for about a mile up a winding path, which was very present I'm now in quite a posh residential area and here we are. I found it The gates there to the Tour de Yvar. So this is this fake castle or a folly We've come to see. Now follies come in all shapes and sizes. I've made various videos on follies before This one, I'm not quite sure what to expect other than I know it's a castle. I think I can see it ahead of us so we go in here and Looks like the entrance to the castle is just ahead. I'll put it somewhere around the corner. I'll pay to go in. So basically a folly is, well the word folly means not real, so this is a castle that's not a real castle. It's a castle someone's built up here to look like an old medieval castle and Have a look at that. There it is in front of us. You could easily think it's an old medieval castle But it isn't. It's purely a folly. Sometimes follies are just one tower But then there are a few that are a complete castle like this one So There we are. The Tour de Var is in front of us. We're gonna go and have a look. I can just see people are inside There's something, don't think the camera's picking it out, but on the keystone above the arch there's something there It gives it away that it's not the medieval castle. It looks like it says date, 1951 So yeah fairly old, but you know 70 years old. It's quite young for a castle So it's a fake castle. It's not it's never been under siege or anything like that It's purely it's folly the word folly. So as we come around here to round the battlements and Oh yeah ahead earlier that means entrance just this word here on this gateway. That's where so it says 7,000 foreign 700 foreign just not a lot. So let's go in and have a look around this castle So I've just paid to come in so we're inside what we're gonna do we're gonna go up here and look around the interior Of the castle first, and then we'll go and look around the exterior. So just a little bit about the castle It's called the Tour de Var. That's named after the gentleman who built the castle Mr. Tour de He worked in a factory, but he would come and work on the castle in his spare time So this is effectively was his house this part of the castle I'm assuming this was here first and they built the castle around it unless they took it far to bring it in So yeah, he began to build it in about in 1951 as we saw on the main tower And then what happened was after a while he Started letting people in and entry was free, but people made donations and then the donations would go towards You know improving the castle so then more people would come and visit and he continued to expand and Extend the castle to the point. It's this huge castle. We've only seen a little bit of it We're just we're effectively in the keep although as I said, it's never actually been under siege So then unfortunately he passed away in about 2018 I think at the age of 87 He worked on this castle until the age of 82. So it really was his life's work I think it's a pretty amazing building come into this room here. It's something quite interesting There's a carved wooden model of the castle So we effectively came up here towards this tab, but we came around here went in there and we're in this building Here now so we're gonna look at what we're looking around this building and go up to the roof and eventually We'll go outside and we'll have a look at this part of the castle. So it's all very exciting There's Sort of various paintings of castles on the walls That's not a painting hung on the wall. That's actually painted on the wall itself So it's pretty amazing What we'll do now go through Up to the roof and then we can have a look at the look at that there on the ceiling all sorts of them Equine horsey things hanging down So we'll go through here now, and then we'll go Up onto the roof of the castle. We'll be able to look down Which go wait for some people to come down the stairs and then we'll go up and have a look So let's go up these stairs It's quite exciting always enjoy going up places like up to the top of towers and you know from the roofs It's always exciting to get up here It's like another room there, which we can't go in And here we are we are going outside. We are now on the roof of the castle. Wow, this is Impressive. I think there's more more of the castle. We can't just go in that bit Let's go up these steps and have a look Look at that. That's really impressive And from here get quite a good view and see Out of the surrounding forests There's a tv tower there I recently made a video went up the tv tower in Zollary I guess that's where you can actually go up it Have a look at Lingholz Green now see that video. I don't think you can go up that one But we're up here. So that's quite cool. Well, these are the chimneys from downstairs Yes, it's quite exciting Being up here Look there's a witch on a broomstick So we have a look so there's another tower there. We can't go in there But there's a spiral staircase going down in there There must be all sorts of other passageways or anything we can't go in and So like there's a building next I think the ancestors of mr. Trudy who started to possibly still live here So there's like yeah, we came in when we came in a moment ago We were right down there just where that well is Um, and I think it's like passageways all around there. It's really quite impressive. That's the big tower hidden behind the tree slightly Which we saw when we came in Um, and then yes, there's obviously those towers down here is effectively like The Barbican and everything so I think we've seen all what we can see up here What I'm gonna do now I'm going to go back down there and we'll explore down in the Barbican So here we are we're back down on the ground so that was where we went in a moment ago We were up there on the roof. We're now going to explore the lower part of the castle So it's all quite fascinating everywhere you look. There's just like doorways and passageways I'd love to explore them all but there's only something I actually can do there's a well Which goes quite a long way down there It's uh, yeah really fascinating place Here is the the main tower just here. So that's what we could see from outside There's a big ball hanging down there you only want that dropped on your head. Oh There how obvious it is, but if you look up there There's a um like a ladder Across I don't know if you can see that see a ladder across from there today From the tower up to the keep that would be quite fun to walk across Now let's go up here and see what else we can see a little souvenir shop Just there so you can buy postcards and Fridge magnets etc. There's another sort of tower there. It's really um Weird in a good way and Fascinating it's pretty big. It's not it's not small at all Has the feeling of an ancient castle because we know it's all Not that ancient at all Then again, that's what a folly is I think yeah looking at that to me that looks a bit too many different styles So I think if I saw that I'd know That's not a real castle, but it's all You know, it's it's kind of got its own little place in history For being an interpretation of a castle Well, there's always that saying every man likes to be king of his castle or this man Literally was king of his castle He must have just sort of got I know he bought all the material up here from quarries I would I get the impression possibly if buildings maybe Down in shopper on city centre were demolished He may have acquired some stones from them. So we just have a little bit and it's Can't go into but you sort of wonder what goes beyond them. There's doors everywhere There's a harrow there for plowing it's uh, yeah just Just a strange sort of place up here on the hill And yeah mysterious and but I like it. It's it's quite fascinating. It cost me 700 forints to come in In English money. That's about £1.80. It's it's not a lot of money to come in either And uh, yeah, there's just stuff everywhere. So, yeah, there's the roof Again where we were so I hope you enjoyed this video From the tour de va the fake castle in the Hungarian city of Chopron. Thank you very much for watching Please do feel free to like subscribe and comment. Goodbye