My "knights" head inside the castle to begin the tour. Gravensteen had the things you'd expect in a 12th-century castle: knights hall, other halls for entertaining, spiral staircases with arrow slits, turrets, a torture chamber, a dungeon, the keep, and a kitchen. This window was in an exhibition hall showing weapons and armor from medieval times. Eliot walks through one of many arched doorways. The castle also had a serene chapel with a simple cross window.
Inside the castle is a torture museum complete with relics of the torture chamber -- a small guillotine with an authentic original blade, spiked iron collars, racks, branding irons, thumb screws, and a special kind of pitchfork designed to make certain that people being burned at the stake stayed in the flames. With a mannequin display on the rack, I has to explain to Eliot that people did weird things back then (which he reported back to me later).
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