When I was driving around the neighbourhood (in the North of Italy) on a sunny day in 2020, I spotted this ruin of a large farm.
The insides were mostly empty and broken down, but the inner court looked pretty nice and the architectural details were fantastic!
These are from inside the...
More or less a total ruin but the cellars were interesting.
I thought something was down there with me 'till I saw it properly & realised it was a bat.
Quite a few of them down there.
So I didn't shove my camera in any of their faces & didn't wake any of the others up.
History -...
The Baron Hill Estate was built in 1618 at the request of Richard Bulkeley. In 1776, architect Samuel Wyatt re-designed the mansion in a Neo-Palladian style. By World War I the Bulkeley family had moved from the mansion and no longer used it as a permanent residence (too expensive). The story...