16. February 2015 · Comments Off on Hearst Castle · Categories: Architecture · Tags: , ,

It was great to spend a week in California and get away from winter for a bit.  We drove up the coast and took a tour of the Hearst Castle which we hadn’t done before.  I’m not sure what WR Hearst’s point was in building this silly thing, but the land is beautiful and I enjoyed the views.

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Hearst Castle

 

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20150202_HearstCastle_AliceGebura_20150207_HearstCastle_AliceGebura_2129The only interior room I liked was the roman pool (below).  The rest of it was so over the top.  I summed it up in a photo collage.

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