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I've recently learned that most 'dungeons' I've seen while visiting castles in my homeland Spain were actually water deposits decorated with fake racks. When did the obsession with imagined dungeons start and why? And did castles have real dungeons at all?

by /u/katzenpflanzen in /r/AskHistorians

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