[post_page_title]They were also pretty bad from the inside as well[/post_page_title]
Before modern plumbing, waste disposal was a serious problem for medieval castles that would routinely house hundreds if not thousands of people. Popular culture has created an image of what a medieval castle was like back then, and it might more or less accurate except on one point – the smell.
Human waste, apparently, was everywhere, as people relieved themselves wherever they pleased. Staircases, hallways, and fireplaces were a favorite spot for whatever courtiers needed to do. A report on Paris’s Louvre Palace, for example, relayed “a thousand unbearable stenches caused by calls of nature which everyone goes to do there every day.”
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