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back to the Bros Of Decay. We just woke up in the middle of
the alpine mountains in Switzerland with the cowbells in the background,
just what you would picture in a movie. it's a magical place right this definitely is and
yeah I'm taking you on another adventure today we're going to an abandoned palace not so
far from here this place should be totally amazing but first let's try to wake up I'm
uh I'm always very difficult to wake up but in this place, it's a little bit easier I
can take a little stroll through the woods here I'm gonna take see if I can get
a nice view from the mountainside oh what a place uh benches everywhere to rest and
sit on your hikes this everybody is living to me I have a look over here at this untouchable
panoramic view that I have in front of me here this is beautiful that's the reason actually why
I bought a van to travel the world with and travel Europe with to sleep in places like this this
is much better than waking up in a hotel room by far means I totally love it
every single second of it wow and they have this picnic set up here on top of the mountainside yesterday
night we had a picnic on this table now it's time to hop into the van and go for
another adventure I'm excited about it definitely so these mountain roads here in Switzerland
there are just wide enough for one car and when you encounter a car it's sometimes
very very difficult somebody has to drive backward or you have to do crazy maneuvers to
even survey those cars it's really crazy but it also a little bit of a challenge and an adventure
driving through these places I actually like it see there's a car coming
okay let's see what we can do go all the way to this site and watch out okay how it fits okay and now comes the tightest part of this whole road
it's 2.3 meters wide and my bus is 2.1 meters wide so I'm pretty curious you ruined it last
night but he's very used to driving these big vehicles and I'm not so let's
see if I can manage so let's go okay this section is the most difficult
so I'm taking it wide through this side and then going into this side take it
short to the wall and then go to this side yes that was pretty easy iron I don't know
what you were talking about last night but you're looking at it wow that viewpoint is amazing this is literally a treat everybody imagine living here waking up to this every
single morning this makes you happy right oh no it seems like a possibility
let's go a little bit further this right next to here is
the outside wall of the palace so we have to cross it to get inside the place I think it's that one yes we think it's the wall
we just saw over there so let's try to hop over there
and see if we can get inside okay there you go William okay I wouldn't yes okay take my camera please yes thank you and there we go let's go down it's like we are walking through paradise here
palm trees everywhere going toward the palace a palace is just a home like any other countless memories are made inside love
is created and fights are fought this was nonetheless true for the extravagant
palace of the Italian Georgino family at the end of the 19th century the family
left their home country Italy behind to pursue business and politics in their
neighboring country Switzerland in doing so they built a grand palace and swiss Italian
style and brought our whole family over at one point over 40 family members
lived inside its walls one can only imagine the atmosphere that used
to transpire inside this place the family stayed very influential
over the course of the century but eventually, its numbers started to dwindle times changed and the younger generation
moved out and started living on their own this continued until the early 2000s when the
last inhabitant Mr. Marco passed away and left everything behind to crumble apart it has been
16 years now since the Georgino family stepped food inside their palace today we are at its
doorstep to take a look inside its forgotten walls what a wonderful and peaceful place I'm in
right now I'm gonna start off this episode of the Georgino family here in their backyard I
think it's just a fantastic and peaceful place and a great starter for this documentary so
let's go this was their private piece of land where they came to rest after a long day of
working in the parliament this was these people's their brightest possession and as you can see
there are palm trees growing all around us making it for a very southern
feeling a very lush forest but the high okay the bell of the church just
literally started ringing now in the background it's beautiful but I will wait for a moment
until it stops and then we could go further with this backyard the church bells have
finally stopped ringing and now we are ready to go further into this backyard I just pointed
out this little fountain that I had here but I didn't show it in detail and here we have this
frog statue and a lovely fountain underneath it beautiful let's now take a stroll towards
the palace and show you its surroundings because it's quite amazing i have cut down many trees in this backyard
I don't know the reason for that but okay this is truly a lovely stroll it's like walking
with you all together towards the palace and here we have the first
glimpse of it you can see a yellow outside very typical for Spain and
Italy not so typical for Switzerland normally they would work a lot with wood on the outside
but over here they worked a lot with concrete and here we have another glimpse from the
outside as you can see let's go down the stairway let's take a look let's take
a closer look at this place seems to be a door open down there there's a little patio where you could sit in
the evening and have a glass of wine the ivy is already protruding through the building taking
it over nature always takes back what's hers what do we have here lots of graffiti oh that's
unfortunate let me turn on the light so that you can see better I hate to see graffiti in
these places that are just terrible signs? large water reservoir there's
a wonderful drinking fountain you can see a lion's head
has been carved into there I thought i saw a white cellar down
here I think I'm right about it oh yes I am and there are still things in here
still bottles and jaws of food all left here that's wonderful still see a few bottles here and
opened after all these years this one is from 2003 just after just before the palace got abandoned a funnel for something but I'm not sure okay let's go back up the stairway right now and
there is another outbuilding here to the left of us that's another oh I almost fell right
there these steps are completely covered by nature so I have to be a bit careful but
there's this outbuilding that's not connected to the palace itself and it's also a wonderful
piece and it has a tower on there and everything look at that isn't that crazy then I tried to make concrete branches from
a tree sculpted here and this hand drilling wow what an enormous building let's go in there let's check it out of course okay this doesn't seem like much at first just a little storage area but i can see a
stairway up there let me try to go up this ladder to watch the stairway let's try to climb
this ladder here with the camera in my hand and it's quite difficult okay we made it we have a winding staircase
going up this tower here in front of us okay let's climb
it let's see what's up there okay let's go up all the way oh we come on to a
little patio here that's very lush and overgrown oh my god have a look at the view that
we have here in front of us, hey neuron okay rune also joins me up here this
is just eye brothering really beautiful with the church here in front of us we
can see the chapel the palace down here everything completely overgrown
what a place everybody what a place okay one last look and let's now
head into the palace over there okay everybody it's now time to
take a peek inside of the palace and show you everything it has to be old all
the artifacts and everything that's left behind and hopefully, we can figure out some more
history about these people together inside of this place, of course, the protective gloves
to protect me and the building one sip of water and then we are ready to explore I'm excited for this one so let's get going
to enter this place we have to duck underneath here underneath this doorway then we can enter inside of the building
and actually the first room that we enter into is already a very curricular room you
wouldn't expect it from a palace like this but this used to be a child's bedroom with
two bunk beds for four children, of course, i don't know why it wasn't this style and
this shape and why did they put it in here okay but nevertheless it's a nice first room to start with and that will
take us further into the palace we're gonna explore every single section
of this place and show you everything that's left behind in here it looks like
Portuguese tiled wall that I had on here but these are actually stickers as
you can see not real unfortunately it also seems that this section of the
building has been remodeled later on after the palace had been around for a long time
have I told you that this place was built in 1854 170 years ago and it still stands until this
day here we have another child's bed still made an exercise bike you don't see them like this
anymore the person that exercised on this bike has done 2 600 and fifteen kilometers in
total they worked pretty good we must say but let's now go into the real
historical parts of this place because that's where the most
interesting things lay of course okay ah and this looks more like it we already
have the first bedroom in front of us and I'm already truly in love with this one you can see
the Italian influence in this bedroom immediately coming back when looking at the ceiling
Italian blazers always have these grand ceiling paintings they put the most time into designing
a wonderful ceiling for their palaces and castles these are the paintings that
they put in each and every corner of the ceiling and in the middle, they
have this wonderful glass chandelier wow but unfortunately the building
is deteriorating probably not usable anymore and only ripe for demolishment and
that's really sad when I explore these places this is the sad truth, everybody, these
are beautiful places but unrestorable and then in the middle of the room, we have these
two wonderful bats from the ancient time true pieces of antique these are in fact not slain bats
they are just very typical Italian antique bats you see them a lot coming back in the country of
Italy but of course today we are in Switzerland still made after all these years a
pillow at the end and a wonderful crown and then also in a room a little cabinet to
store some things and here on the ground we can see all the rubble that has fallen
down from the ceiling over the years one last thing in this room is this gold
bald street chair I really like it the fluffy things underneath are quite wonderful what
a beautiful piece everybody what a beautiful piece one thing that I'm wondering about
when looking through this room is this outlet that's here on the
wall I'm not sure what it was used for maybe for a chimney or something like that but
I'm totally not sure if anybody can point that out to me that would be wonderful let's now
stroll further through this place and see what we can behold wow this hole is quite
magnificent I have to turn on my light a little bit so you can see it better every single
corner of this hallway again is designed not with crown molding or something like that but just
plain hand paintings that they all put in here ah here we are entering the bathroom of
the place and wow what a spectacular piece a freestanding bottle with paws underneath it does it say on here or what's
Italian has written on here feel cold and I don't know what hot means Italian what a beautiful piece and this everybody used to be there right next
to it but look how huge this thing is you can completely fill it up with water I guess and or
it was to wash a shout or something like that but oh no I'm wrong there is a bit there in this
room so this is a really strange bathtub to me yeah maybe for an older person or for a child
I don't know if anybody has seen this I can't let everybody know what we are seeing here
in front of us that would be just wonderful the toilets in the corner of
the room meant a little vanity to make themselves beautiful in the morning and
above it, we have these tinted glass windows I love how they design every single
room in a different color with different artworks on the ceiling over here, for example,
we have crown molding instead of paintings and even the towel of these people is
still left behind after all these years from that bedroom from that
bathroom, you walk straight into another bedroom and this again is also
completely designed with a different color a single bed over here in front
of us probably again for a child wow unfortunately vandals have been inside of this place there used
to be a grand mirror here in front of us but all the pieces of the mirror are just over
there on the vanity that's really sad to me there's a little doll here on the side of the
vanity but it doesn't want to open up anymore luckily this mirror here in
front of us is still in one piece and I can still look at myself from it wow goat hangers and everything still
left in here there's one more doorway behind here let's open that one up oh and we're
coming into a wonderful bed for everybody just a beautiful piece let me show it to you in full
detail wow there's even a boost here to the side probably if one of the former owners of this place
look at him he looks like more like an Italian man than a swiss man and yeah I'm not sure
of the exact origin of this family but from their surname, you can
derive that they're probably Italian wonderful boost and then again the bed right next
to it is also very beautiful and luckily this one is still made the curtain is still above it and
the bells just started ringing in the background their initials are also
inscribed in the bed frame f b but that's not the initials
because their surname starts with g strange this is a wonderful vanity I love how every single
piece of furniture that's in this room is exactly made for this room it all has the same initials
inscribed in them it all has the same style that's just lovely let's open this one
up, fortunately, nothing in there anymore a railing round window there's
even glass worked into here wow and here we can get a glimpse from
the outside of the palace look at this one more glimpse at the ceiling of this room the
crown molding in here is also just fascinating there's a teeny tiny chandelier
hanging from the ceiling there wow okay let's go further into the hallway
let's see the other parts of this palace i love the arch styles that
they have in here as well they're quite magnificent and as you can
see everything like eating electricity and things like that also have been added later
on because when this palace was built in 1854 that of course didn't exist and
everything needed to be added on later even these heaters chauffage like
we call them in french and dutch have this knob on there I
really like how they're operated but they as well have been added on later
to the palace okay let's walk further we can get little glimpses into some bedrooms
from these windows that are here in the hallway that's quite a cool right okay I want to explore these
bedrooms now sorry that I explore all the bedrooms in the beginning but
we will go to the other parts later on okay wow this is just such a wonderful bedroom and
definitely 100 Italian from the looks of it when you explore in Italy you have to go through my
Italian videos you will see it you always have two beds with one nightstand in the middle and these
were the rooms where the children would sleep they at first had a wonderful gold plated chandelier hanging from the ceiling here I
love the faces that have been carved into it and then right behind it, we have
these two beds that are still made acorn light switch let me try I tried to turn it
on but it doesn't work anymore this is not an acorn that's
a really cool light switch have a look at these bats aren't they just adorable if I was a
child I would love to sleep in them? and then even the vanities they had two
vanities in this room with a wardrobe right in the middle again all the furniture
in this room has made an exact same style this beauty doesn't open up anymore very
stuck but again no clothing in there anymore oh and they could even open up the shutters
and look into the lush back garden that we have over here it's now completely
overgrown i hope you can see something but over here you look into
the backyard of the house there should also be another room behind here let's take away this chair let's open this
door up and that reveals yet another room, oh and this one is a little bit less
fancy it's also a child's bedroom but yeah I don't know why they made a difference
between the two okay again another channel here and here some chandeliers seem very grand and
very beautiful but other ones are just very plain and this is again the same
wardrobe as we saw in the other room and at first, thought that there was a mirror
here but it's actually just a hole in the door that leads back into the
hallway where we just came from okay that's very strange but I suppose again
this is quite a vandalism somebody tried to get into this room and destroyed this door for it
that's not how you explore I really wish that people would explore with more respect
and just there are some non-written rules when exploring abandoned places like don't spray
graffiti never break a place to get inside and stuff like that never displace things
instead yeah more people should guide those rules and yeah that's why we protect
these places and keep them as secret as possible and i hope you appreciate that so let's go further I place everything nicely back how it belongs and let's now go further into the hallway
and see the remainder of this palace, wow and we're coming here into a beautifully designed
hallway as you can see typical Italian but again in Switzerland the rope is right
next to the stairway hanging here I just adore it big flush at the end what a beauty
to behold but first let's explore the upstairs of this place okay we have a little hall tree
here in this upstairs part wow here the people could hang up their coats put their umbrellas down
there again also wonderfully designed at the top and here we have the bell
the doorbell of the house okay let's go into this room right now and the
first thing I see is this wonderful tiled stove here in front of us it has
this flower design on it it's quite unique this must be one of the
most beautiful ones that I've seen so far oh what a beauty everybody what a beauty to behold
we're standing here I don't know I think a little sitting area that we just entered into a funny
thing about it is there's still a bottle of wine the same one as we saw on the basement
from 2003 left here on the table okay yeah just this little sitting area beautiful
sofa there in the corner the pole street sofa as you can see and then this
radiator here to the side of it also a little cabinet in the corner of the room okay an empty room right here just
an ordinary bed in the corner and then we enter right into another bedroom this looks like a heaven bed that we have here
in front of us but it's actually not it's just four pillars standing there these lions at the
front of it they're quite nice to my opinion okay some broken glass again of the vandals
this gets me every single time when I see it let's open this one up oh
and here we come into another wonderful bedroom a single bath so one
person used to sleep in this room again all the furniture that's in this room just matches
each other that just gives this room character and that lets you also know that these people were
people of money people of power a wonderful bed here in front of this I can't still mate the
nightstand right next to it but what's most interesting in this room is the desk that's worked
into the wall here you can see a very long desk specially made for this room two drawers at the
front and one chair over here where you could work at I can see the former owner still working here
in this bedroom literature books at the end of it and then we have a vanity as well in this room and a wonderful wardrobe that matches everything
but just this one is out of place here I don't know why they put it in this room so
unfortunate it ruins the experience to my opinion it just doesn't match anything in this room stupid and then from the hallway, we have another
section here to the left of us that leads us into another part of the palace the first room that
we open let's see oh this was a shower area okay very small shower area but you can
also see a stairway that leads up okay okay I want to venture rabbit
first before we go downstairs we come into an old other
section of the palace over here a bench to the side of us where
you can store some things inside wow this is the attic of the place no way
and over here we have even more bedrooms how many people must have lived in
this place it must have been insane lots of books here and again this is the
magazine from 1924 developed by a french company that i have filmed the castle of i will link an
annotation up here the people that designed and distributed this man this magazine i have filmed
their castle a wonderful magazine let me show you that's just a news article slash information
slash advertisement of that time period lots of pound books in here this one doesn't open up anymore but look at
the little library that they had behind here these books that lay in here are pretty
ancient probably hundreds of years old and then down here you see there's a lot coming
back in these places they collect rolls of wallpaper and they just store it maybe to see
if they ever want to remodel a room of a palace like this then they have samples of wallpaper
that they might use for that room okay everybody over here it's just an empty part at the end we have the first section of true attic look at the device standing
here don't know what it was used for probably some sort of a coat hanger a bird cage as well here on the floor and
somebody also used to sleep this side of the room and these look like more like yeah servants
areas these bedrooms look so bland and not much inspiration has gone into
this bedroom so i suppose that servants used to sleep up here to help
out the family with their duties that's why we probably have at
the we have rooms upon the attic more chests and stuff like that here they even stored some nightstands that they had too many of and didn't
fit in the pellets anymore wow what a place but much more there's not to see on this attic
and i'm not gonna stand too long on this floor because it's quite wobbly okay let's
go further oh my god ah that hurt i just hit my head on the beam
up there ah that was painful okay let me let me have a moment please okay everybody the moment has arrived we're
gonna go down this wonderful stairway and check out the remainder of the palace i'm quite
excited for it and also to walk down this beauty let's do it let's go first off we have the rope hanging here from
the side it sort of acts like a hand railing i was looking is this no this is not real marble
this is just a painting that i put onto there wow and we can definitely see that the people
that lived here were also quite religious from the statue that's here
in the middle of the hallway a wonderful piece but this hat
has fallen off unfortunately this is just straight out of a movie and then we have another one
of those ropes to this side that leads us into the grand hallway of the place welcome everybody welcome just first turn around
and show you this side they even had a red carpet running up the stairway to the top floor but what
also piques my interest is this lovely piano here in the corner of the room does it still function
no it doesn't play anymore oh just a little bit wow what a piece to behold and everywhere
again the ceiling paintings are coming back let's a little bit interested in these doorways
see where they lead to oh they lead to the outside okay the doors just open over there interesting
oh i was in this section and i checked this door actually but i didn't check this door and this
door just leads into the palace oh i'm pretty dumb okay i'm done i'm really dumb wow and
then we also have this door to this side that leads to nowhere just the lovely building
cabinet but i stored some things inside okay now we have the other side of the hallway
while this telephone here to the left of us look at this piece how it's built this
is probably 19th century telephone even if the bells here to the side i don't
know where all the knobs were for maybe they were just used to call somebody back then it's
completely covered wow just adore this piece you even have this little winder here to the side probably to wind it up to
start your telephone call and then here on the wall
we have a little inscription okay i'm gonna take out my telephone
let me translate it for you so i just did a translation of it and it reads out
live today because there might not be a tomorrow that's a really beautiful phrase it's completely
written in italian like we thought from the style of this building the people were
more italian than swiss that lived here and i actually live by this phrase every single
day and i think all of you should do it as well what a wonderful piece i'm gonna keep this in
mind while exploring this place let's go further now just one more look at it for everybody
and the italians of course can fully read it and then the remainder of the hallway just a few
sitting benches over there the window is wide open at this wonderful chandelier
as well in this hallway and the rumbling that you probably hear
on the back is thunderstorm that's coming closer and closer while i'm exploring
this place it's actually quite daunting over here we can see the ivy
growing inside of the place and again more wonderful ceiling
paintings surrounding this hallway this used to be a wall clock the clock
face is completely taken out unfortunately oh i adore this little blue chandelier
that we have over here in this room isn't that just a magnificent piece
and then some crown molding above it again we entered into a little sitting area
where the people could rest and sit and relax in the evening some wonderful antique
chairs around the little coffee table we also had to have to have a look at the
tinted glass windows that we have over here wow and then we enter into another
room and this one is quite unique and that's because of the ceiling again
wow they have some birds painted into here fruits and groves grapes peaches
everything is worked into here these are the fruits that the harvests around
the fields that surround this palace even a plant from 16 years ago is still here fortunately nothing in the drawers anymore
but this must have been also a wonderful room to sit in we have this marble
fireplace here in the corner of the room beautiful red marble and then this colorful tile
in there oh and i love this radiator that we have next to it as well it has this little section
i'm always not 100 sure what people used to put in here but they put something in here to keep
warm maybe a bed heater or something like that of course doesn't get hot enough to cook
water because because what brings to the what to hear is just warm water and you can't
cook water on water that's not a thing another upholstery chair you're on a corner
oh these books that lay here 1877 to 1917 take out one of these show you what's in here it's again an italian book probably
an encyclopedia of some sort industry agricultural industry it says on there these carvings above here are also very wonderful one more look at these ceiling paintings oh
in this one we have a fish worked into it and these tinted glass windows are
even more beautiful than the other ones yes and then from this wonderful hallway
we will go to this last section of the palace unfortunately it's already last but
not the least so let's go through there first off we have these wonderful windows here to
the right that let light flood into the building and they would lead out to a patio in front
back in the day but now it's all been completely overgrown and in the middle of this hallway we
have this wonderful channel here hanging wow again everything in this hallway is hand painted
and designed a very particular way i love it okay and then we end up in this room a very
empty room with a little very low ceiling as well not very interesting that leads us into a little bureau okay where the
owner of the place might have conducted some work he of course was very influential so
lots of paperwork needed to be done chandelier hanging here again in the
middle of the room looking over this bureau some magazines left here gardenia that's just gardening and it's
from the year 2000s it says on there it's just a book a magazine completely
dedicated to gardening oh excuse me lots of advertisements in here as well
but they are all related to gardening more books over here the nature and science books
and also politician books politics universal books just wonderful oh and then we go further down a little
stairway that leads us into a beautiful room in front of us oh this was the grand room of the
place oh my god i just love it how it's designed i want to explore more in the country of italy and
just their beautiful ceiling paintings chandeliers and their taste for design is just unmatched in
the abandoned world only in italy and now for this time in switzerland we can see something like
this you have to tell me this chandelier is just meticulous oh i can stare at it for hours and
hours on the end you go a little bit closer wow and i'm just wondering what this room was
used for but it's supposedly just a sitting area maybe there used to be a big
dining table here in the middle where people could have dinner at it seems
like a grind damning and dining area to me wow these upholstery chairs here in front of
the fireplace the little puff in front of it beautiful upholstery on there designed into detail then we have the grand mirror you
can see the chandelier also inside and it'll need a wonderful fireplace wow the wallpaper is unfortunately already peeling
off sledding loose the building is deteriorating and falling apart and this is the big brother
of the other chairs in front of the fireplace wow another sofa right next to it i love this one as well what a beauty everybody and that leads
us into the last room of the place that's again a little sitting area as you can
see but not the least not the least at all yeah that's this corner bench that's actually
pretty german you don't see this very often in italy or switzerland or france even it's a
very german thing but now we see it over here completely worked into the wall with carvings
all above it it looks more like a children's room i must say from all the paintings or
slash carvings that we have here in the walls some children playing outside and you can feel
the relief in this carving it's quite nice maybe this was the room where
the children would hang out when the big adults had dinner in the room
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this was actually my last location that i explored in switzerland but i will be back this country
has surprised me i thought that there would wouldn't be any abandoned buildings here because
it's such a sophisticated and a rich country but still we're managed to find some amazing
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