Neuschwanstein Castle is the most photographed building in Germany, and the reason is not the architecture. It is the location. The castle sits on a rugged hill above the Pollat Gorge, surrounded by the Bavarian Alps, with lakes and forests stretching in every direction. King Ludwig II built it as a private refuge, not a […]
Hohenschwangau Castle or Neuschwanstein in Germany
Neuschwanstein Castle is the most famous fairy-tale castle in the world, the soaring Romanesque Revival fantasy of King Ludwig II of Bavaria, perched dramatically on a rocky Alpine outcrop above the village of Hohenschwangau, whose turrets, towers, and white limestone walls inspired Walt Disney’s Sleeping Beauty Castle and have become the single most iconic image […]
