Hrušov is small, and that is the pleasure of it: everything worth seeing is within a few dozen paces of everything else, and you can take the whole castle in without ever losing sight of the trees.Hrušov je malý — a práve v tom je jeho pôvab: všetko, čo stojí za pozretie, je od seba na pár desiatok krokov a celý hrad si prejdete bez toho, aby ste stratili les z dohľadu.
The whole point of the site. The builders did not level the crag; they built on it, letting the natural rock do the work of a plinth and squeezing the palace into whatever space was left. Stand in the middle of it and you understand the castle in about ten seconds.Celý zmysel tohto miesta. Stavitelia bralo nezrovnali — postavili naň, nechali prírodnú skalu robiť prácu podmurovky a palác vtesnali do toho, čo zostalo. Postavte sa doprostred a hrad pochopíte za desať sekúnd.
Look along the tops of the walls and you can see exactly where the volunteers have got to. Fresh lime mortar, level courses, the rubble core capped so that rain runs off instead of in. It is the least glamorous work in heritage conservation and the only thing that keeps a ruin from becoming a heap.Pozrite sa pozdĺž vrchov múrov a presne uvidíte, kam sa dobrovoľníci dostali. Čerstvá vápenná malta, rovné vrstvy, zaklenuté jadro muriva, aby voda stekala dolu a nie dovnútra. Je to najmenej efektná práca v pamiatkovej ochrane — a jediná, ktorá zrúcaninu udrží zrúcaninou a nie kopou kameňa.
From the crag there is almost no sign of the twentieth century: ridge behind ridge of unbroken oak and beech, with the Nitra lowland glimmering somewhere far to the west. In October the whole range turns copper and the view is worth the climb on its own.Z brala nevidno takmer nič z dvadsiateho storočia: hrebeň za hrebeňom neprerušených dubín a bučín, kdesi ďaleko na západe sa trblieta Podunajská nížina. V októbri sa celé pohorie sfarbí do medena a výhľad sám osebe stojí za to stúpanie.
Hrušov is one of three ruins strung along the same small range that rises behind Nitra's own Zobor. Gýmeš above Jelenec and Oponice above the Apponyi village complete the set — three walks, three very different castles, one long weekend.Hrušov je jednou z troch zrúcanín na tom istom malom pohorí, ktoré sa dvíha za nitrianskym Zoborom. Gýmeš nad Jelencom a Oponice nad aponiovskou dedinou dopĺňajú trojicu — tri túry, tri celkom odlišné hrady, jeden dlhý víkend.
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