The techniques used to build the castle are amazing. It's difficult to capture with a narrow lens and poor lighting. This is an example of a column with three different beams intersecting it. The column is a composite: there were very few trees big enough to make a column this big (a little over one foot square). The technique that we use today for laminating wood wasn't available back then, so smaller pieces of wood were bound together as best they could: metal spikes like staples help hold adjacent pieces together, and iron bands wrap around the entire column. The beams are shaped in dovetail and other patterns and held together entirely with wooden pegs. The castle has six levels. I forget how tall it is (ask Mr. Google!), but the engineering used to build this castle is quite amazing.
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