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Trebnje Castle dates from year the 13th century and was first mentioned in written sources in 1386. The original owners were the lords of Trebnje from Carinthia, while it was later run by the Ortenbuger, the Counts of Celje, the Hapsburgs and others, and was from 1812 to 1824 owned even by the local missionary Frederic Irenaeus Baraga.
The castle retained many ancient sections – a square tower with Roman foundations, a round tower from the time of the Ottoman Wars – and was completed to the way it is today in the 16th century. A stone lion from Roman times reigns on top of the castle stairs. The castle was extended in the 17th and 18th century. It owes its current look to a 19th-century remodelling in the historicist style.
References:The Château du Lude is one of the many great châteaux of the Loire Valley in France. Le Lude is the most northerly château of the Loire Valley and one of the last important historic castles in France, still inhabited by the same family for the last 260 years. The château is testimony to four centuries of French architecture, as a stronghold transformed into an elegant house during the Renaissance and the 18th century. The monument is located in the valley of Le Loir. Its gardens have evolved throughout the centuries.
