A visit to Neuschwanstein \u002D inspiration for Sleeping Beauty Castle in Disneyland \u002D provides a look at Bavaria\u0027s creative King Ludwig II.
Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page.HOHENSCHWANGAU, Germany – Please take as many exterior snaps of those gleaming white towers and parapets as desired, amid the Alpine foothills, greenery and waterfalls.
Though Ludwig only stayed in his costly chateau a total of 172 nights, he slept on an intricately carved oak-panelled canopy bed, surrounded by paintings, tapestries, gilded mirrors and every incarnation of swans.century Europe’s collective mania for medieval fables and embracing of nature. These same mountains, dark forests, lakes and hamlets were where the Brothers Grimm had recently written their classics such as Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel and Cinderella.
Demolishing remains of an older castle on the rocky outcrop, sandstone, limestone and marble were hauled uphill .Ludwig wanted emphasis on Norse legends to please his good friend Richard Wagner, thus the many design homages to Wagner’s epic operas and a theatre meant to host them. But in keeping with his age of innovation, Ludwig installed Bavaria’s first telephone. He kept 60 servants, but the unmarried king preferred solitude.
Not far from Neuschwanstein, also set in the Alpine foothills, it’s smaller, but just as opulent inside and features gardens, cascades, sculptures and a grotto . Much of Linderhof reflects Ludwig’s obsession for Versailles after he’d visited Paris, with a Hall of Mirrors and grand staircase, while formal portraits hanging throughout are 18The front garden of Linderhof palace has 30 marble steps, with a gilded fountain and 25-metre geyser, up to the Temple of Venus.
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