Tag: Palace Travel Journal

Who doesn’t love a beautiful palace? Well, except for the peasants on whose backs the monarchs built the palace. Of course, I don’t mean literally on their backs. That doesn’t tend to make for a particularly stable foundation. And, even if it were stable, you’d need a lot of peasants to create a foundation large enough to create a palace large enough to be considered palatial. But, you know what I mean.

The monarchs of old tended to tax the serfs and use those taxes to build themselves palaces. Meanwhile, the peasants had to satisfy themselves with, at best, modest abodes.

But enough about that. Many old palaces now serve as tourist attractions for a variety of reasons. Maybe the people overthrew the monarchy and turned the palaces over to the people, through the government. Sometimes the royalty lost their heads, occasionally literally. Death robbed them of a reason to continue to occupy their palaces.