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What A World: Robin Hood’s Secret Castle

What A World

A stunning mountain castle served as a fortress for Slovenia’s Robin Hood and once hid a long-buried treasure.

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A cliffside Slovenian castle sits on not just a network of secret caves that hid an infamously swashbuckling knight—who successfully held off a full offensive by the Holy Roman Empire for more than a year—but also a cache of buried treasure.

Fitted into the mouth of a cavern in the eastern...

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