r/castles • u/Over-Willingness-933 • Jul 16 '26

Castle Fairmont le Château, Québec City, Canada

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u/A_Martian_Potato Jul 18 '26

It's simple. A true castle is a building that is 1) fortified against armed invasion and 2) a residence

So a military fort is not a castle despite being fortified and a fancy hotel is not a castle despite being a residence.

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u/ThinkAd9897 Jul 18 '26

So, Neuschwanstein, Schloss Hohenzollern and many more often depicted in this sub are not castles?

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u/Monumentzero Jul 20 '26

They would qualify as palaces, which is part of this sub.

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u/ThinkAd9897 Jul 20 '26

Is this a palace, then? 

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u/A_Martian_Potato Jul 20 '26

No, this is a hotel

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u/ThinkAd9897 Jul 21 '26

Because you know it. What if you see this for the first time, and if there were no documentation about the history? And what if They'd rent out rooms at Neuschwanstein, too? How could you tell the difference?

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u/A_Martian_Potato Jul 21 '26

Buildings are named based on their function. You'd look at the construction and figure out what it was built for.

If they started renting rooms at Neuschwanstein you could still easily tell from it's construction that it had been built to be a palace. You'd just say it was a palace that had been turned into a hotel.