Neuschwanstein Castle is often called "the castle of the fairy-tale king" because Ludwig II had a reputation for being an eccentric recluse. In a letter to Wagner, Ludwig II said his intentions ...

Getty Images Neuschwanstein Castle is often called "the castle of the fairy-tale king" because Ludwig II had a reputation for being an eccentric recluse. In a letter to Wagner, Ludwig II said his ...

King Ludwig II dedicated the castle to Richard Wagner, the famous composer who was a close friend and confidant for many years. “The location is one of the most beautiful to be found, holy and ...

The original ‘Disney castle’ finally named as Unesco World Heritage Site - ‘Ludwig II called in not architects, but theatrical set designers who shared his obsession with Wagnerian opera’ ...

Built under the rule of Ludwig II, the grand palace complexes in Bavaria were among 26 new sites granted world heritage ...

The Neuschwanstein castle in Germany's Bavaria, perhaps best known for inspiring Walt Disney's fairytale castles, has been named a World Heritage site, the UN cultural agency announced on Saturday ...

Road Trip 2011: King Ludwig II bankrupted his state of Bavaria by building this fairytale castle, which was still under construction at the time of his mysterious death at age 41.

Once upon a time in the 19th century, far, far away in the Bavarian Alps of Germany, there lived an eccentric king, Ludwig II. In 1869, Ludwig commissioned a castle that he wanted built high above ...

Touristic, glorious, and romantic, some of Germany's best attractions are in Bavaria. My favorites are three of King Ludwig II’s castles: stocky Hohenschwangau, his boyhood home; the nearby and ...

My favorites are three of King Ludwig II’s castles: stocky Hohenschwangau, his boyhood home; the nearby and fanciful Neuschwanstein, his dream escape; and Linderhof, his final retreat.

Long before it helped to inspire Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland, was a refuge for ’s King Ludwig II of Bavaria who spent much of his kingdom’s fortune building castles. Neuschwanstein is ...

The homiest of Ludwig’s castles is the small and comfortably exquisite Linderhof, set in the woods 15 minutes from Oberammergau, the Shirley Temple of Bavarian villages (a 45-minute drive from ...