{"id":2466,"date":"2014-01-30T21:08:36","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T21:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=2466"},"modified":"2014-01-30T21:13:05","modified_gmt":"2014-01-30T21:13:05","slug":"castle-miranda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=2466","title":{"rendered":"Castle Miranda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Miranda_Castle\">Castle Miranda<\/a> is otherwise (more properly?) known as Chateau Noisy. It&#8217;s a long way from here, in Belgium, but was designed by the English architect <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edward_Milner\">Edward Milner<\/a>. It is, to vastly understate things, a beautiful Neo-Gothic building that has been terribly neglected. You can read all about it in an account on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidbakerphotography.com\/projects\/residential\/the-history-of-chateau-de-noisy-chateau-miranda-belgium\">David Baker&#8217;s excellent site here<\/a>. It&#8217;s also very <a href=\"http:\/\/www.proj3ctm4yh3m.com\/urbex\/2013\/02\/04\/urbexcastle-miranda-aka-chateau-de-noisy-belgium-december-2012-part-1\/\">popular with urbexers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>David&#8217;s a professional photographer, and has taken some beautiful images of the chateau- you can visit the gallery by clicking the image below:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2467\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2467\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidbakerphotography.com\/portfolio\/residential-photography\/chateau-de-noisy-belgium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/images\/\/DSC2295-1920x1280.jpg\" alt=\"Castle Miranda\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/images\/DSC2295-1920x1280.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/images\/DSC2295-1920x1280-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2467\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Castle Miranda. Image courtesy of David Baker: click to visit his gallery.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The bad news is that the owners want to demolish it, despite many offers to purchase the site over the years. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidbakerphotography.com\/journal\/news\/chateau-de-noisy-belgium\">Dave&#8217;s post<\/a> here, and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lapetition.be\/en-ligne\/Sauvegarde-du-Chateau-de-Noisy-13814.html\">petition site here<\/a> (hint, use <a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\">Google Translate<\/a> if you can&#8217;t read French).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Castle Miranda is otherwise (more properly?) known as Chateau Noisy. It&#8217;s a long way from here, in Belgium, but was designed by the English architect Edward Milner. It is, to vastly understate things, a beautiful Neo-Gothic building that has been terribly neglected. You can read all about it in an account on David Baker&#8217;s excellent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=2466\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Castle Miranda<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}