Stolpen Castle, Saxony, Germany, 13th century fortress built on a basalt mass on a layer of granite. Amas basaltique sur lequel est bati le Chateau de Stolpen en Allemagne. Copperplate engraving by Milanese painter Gaetano Riboldi from Scipion Breislak’s Traite sur la Structure Exterieure du Globe, Treatise on the Exterior Structure of the Globe, Jean-Pierre Giegler, Milan, 1822.

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