4.8K views · 198 reactions | Nearly every room in the big house at William Randolph Hearst's San Simeon estate contains religious art, mostly Catholic. This large Spanish chant book (3 feet by 2 feet), with its 117 vellum pages, sits in the Assembly Room and can be seen, when we're open, on the Grand Rooms Tour. #CAStateParks #CatholicArt #HearstCastle | Hearst Castle | Facebook

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Do you ever stand somewhere and feel time shiver? Peleș Castle does that to you, an edifice that doesn’t merely exist but remembers. Built by a monarch chasing perfection, it hums with contradictions: the scent of varnished walnut and cold mountain air; the hush of a chandelier before it trembles with light. Every corridor feels like a sigh left unfinished, every carved beam a confession made in oak. The Carpathians outside guard it like monks, silent and knowing, while the world below forgets w