This village is built on a basaltic cliff more than 50m high and spreads about 1 kilometers long. (Castellfollit de La Roca, Spain)...

Sep 19, 2021 1:43 AM

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Is that an American flag hanging off the left side?

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

The trees below are full of the children's balls and frisbees, a couple drunk guys who gave up, some bicycles, and all the old mattresses.

4 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

So it's like castlevania from NES

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

How did they build so close to the edge without fucking dying. All of this is terrifying

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Ahh, if it isn't Nopetown, population Not Me.

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I think I can see the Bards College from here!

4 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

Fucking solitude.

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Nice LOTR vibes they have there

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

How does the sewage system work here?

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

The what?

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That is one big flag!

4 years ago | Likes 30 Dislikes 0

Is it a very faded Estelada, or something else? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estelada

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

yeah, too many years hanging out, some of the flags you will see in catalonia look white and pink..

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

That's a video game village if I ever saw one (which I actually didn't)

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

When they flush their toilets where does it go?

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

What toilet? You just squat over the edge and let it go!

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

That's what I was afraid of

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Fuck why do we kept tryna play frisbee here??!?

4 years ago | Likes 238 Dislikes 0

Yeah, screw this. Hey, I know! Let's go play tennis!

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

People running a second-hand frisbee shop at the bottom of the cliff: "Keep 'em coming!"

4 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Basalt is a strong igneous rock, but don't take it for granite.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Stealing this for a DnD map.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

--slaps cliff-- 'this baby's not going anywhere'

4 years ago | Likes 709 Dislikes 0

Unless Eric Clapton is staying there, then this baby might be going somewhere

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 6

--slaps cliff-- 'this baby can hold SO many houses'

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

nopesylvania

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*Distant rumbling*

4 years ago | Likes 192 Dislikes 0

4 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 1

*sculpts Mexican*

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

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Lol perfect

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

…and then you yerk of to Guns & Ammo and put your gigantic American flag on it

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 8

Looks more like Puerto Rico to me.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Correction, Catalonian flag

4 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

It was a joke.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 4

Make sure you visit The Winking Skeeter, when you visit Solitude...they make the best mead and sweet rolls in all of Haafingar!

4 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Are you implying I need special party clothes to visit that courtyard at the end?

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Skeever*

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Whoa

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Tight

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Typical of church to soak up the prime real-estate..

4 years ago | Likes 44 Dislikes 5

How deep is that cemetery?

4 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

160 feet, the bodies get dumped off the side.

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Well, it's convenient.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Work smarter not harder

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

But y tho

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

Really hard to invade?

4 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Hard to attack. Relatuvely easy to defend. Makes sense.

4 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

what if they attack by starving you out ?

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

In feudal times, there was typically a storehouse and a cistern or spring.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Ofc but i meant for months

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

There's a frighteningly large amount of people in these comments that don't get this

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Does anyone else wonder how they adapted modern plumbing and electrical for this cliff? Is there a sewer cut into the rock?

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

If the Witcher taught me anything, there's a moonlit bossfight waiting in that courtyard. Probably some henchmen in the alleys on the way

4 years ago | Likes 189 Dislikes 0

Nah, this is where you fight the Combine Gunship after you sabotage the headcrab launcher.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

..fuck

4 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

Hmm

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4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Definitely a fire cat man in a cave under the town.

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Just replayed that mission, dont know why, but it really creeped me out this time

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I felt the same the second go. I was paying more attention and dudes voice it creepy. It does help that he's pretty tough even for the 1/

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Recommended level. I wound up fighting him in the doorway of his room with the crossbow at level 13 or so.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I was just thinking where’s the blacksmith’s shop?

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Bloodborne agrees.

4 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 0

*Dark souls nods in acknowledgement*

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

*Super Mario Brothers Super Show does an Italian kiss.*

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Still really cool without the need to force perspective

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

50m ≈ 160 feet

4 years ago | Likes 33 Dislikes 4

Right. Had to think for half a second to realize it was not suggesting 50 miles

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

1 kilometers ≈ 3300 feet

4 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

1m

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10-11 giraffes tall.

4 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

v

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Hiding from the fire nation.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That's what I want to know too

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

People in Southern Europe lived with raiding by Saracens, barbarians, bandits, and corsairs for a thousand years. This is how they coped.

4 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 0

Danubia by Simon Winder discusses this a bit. Every town had a redoubt (usually the church).

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

You can’t live in a church forever, you need a safe town.

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Not Spain, Catalonia!

4 years ago | Likes 35 Dislikes 11

Visca Visca!!

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4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 3

Not Catalonia,Pangea! Hoho

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

Exactly!!!

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 6

Catalunya, si us plau...

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 6

Or Cataluña. By the way, sisplau=Please and “si us plau”=If it pleases you.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I may have anglicised the spelling, but the important thing to recognise is that Catalan independence should be recognised worldwide!

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 5

you are right. But I bet all the ones commenting here are Catalan people ! :-)

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 4

Why should it in your opinion?

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Erosion. That is all.

4 years ago | Likes 315 Dislikes 10

Yeah, but... it's rock, will take millions of years. If it were paper or scissors we'd have a problem

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Clever!

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

My money is on we are all dead before this cliff goes.

4 years ago | Likes 51 Dislikes 2

Oh, you don't know basalt...

4 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 0

Slays king, ruins town, and beats mountain down.

4 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

Your own erosion is going to get ya before basalt's ever does

4 years ago | Likes 126 Dislikes 2

But spalling doesn't particularly care how hard the rock itself is.

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Spalling in basalt is primarily induced by thermal loading, but I'm just google searching. Didn't know what spalling was tbh

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Well said

4 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 1

Earthquake

4 years ago | Likes 102 Dislikes 4

Spain doesn't really have any major earthquakes. Mostly just small tremors.

4 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

v

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4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yep, thought the same. No matter how sturdy the houses are, these are just one earthquake or landslide away from crumbling to dust. :x

4 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 1

Assuming there are earthquakes in that area? That architecture doesn't exactly scream modern so it's probably been there a while

4 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

I sincerely hope that the people who live there will never experience one. :x

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Luckily serious earthquakes can't happen everywhere on the planet

4 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I've never experienced any natural disasters. ? No fires, tornadoes, landslides, anything. Only snow here in Finland. And even that is eh.

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Who wants, to live, forever?

4 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

There's no chance for us, it's all decided for us, this world has only one sweet moment set aside for us.

4 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

what moment might that be?

4 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

death? because that's great and all, but it's nothing fancy..

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It's a Queen song.

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