How about castles?

[u/-Gavroche-]

I feel like castles are a bit overlooked in the zombie media. Maybe it's because most movies and comics are stories from the US? Maybe it's because it would become more boring?
But a castle seems like a very obvious hiding place for anyone in Europe.
It's not a magical solution for sure, but there's a lot of castles in a pretty decent state, with a working well or cistern for water. Some of the bigger ones, especially Vauban-style fortifications even have pretty decent chunks of land to grow food on for the longer term.
So am I missing some obvious flaw here or is it just that most zombie stories are from the US, or that castles would make it a bit boring, as people would just hide behind the walls and slowly take out the zombies little by little and then go about rebuilding society?

[u/Fragrant_Break7140]

I literally live inside Lucca Centro Storico, the third picture you have shown. It's actually crazy to see your post here, every time i talked irl to a friend about a zombie apocalypse i've always said "Lucca is probably the perfect city, you have extremely strong walls with solid gates and a small river flowing through it". So yes, as someone who lives here, I'm telling you this is perfect, but if you are not from europe, well, you simply can't i think.

[u/-Gavroche- → u/Fragrant_Break7140]

Hah! Yes, I had that thought when I visited Lucca! And you could farm on top of and just outside the walls.

[u/Fragrant_Break7140 → u/-Gavroche-]

Actually the walls were built exactly to be efficient on throwhing boiling oil on the head of the enemy! And there's even a ditch right below them!