Castle Neuschwanstein
2008-05-23 | Filed Under Journal, Photos |
Recently, Aisha and Ross - two mates from Holland - dropped in for a long weekend to get away from their respective stressy student and software developer lives.
Intent on giving them the full German experience, I dragged them around Neuschwanstein Castle, this ludicrously large and ornate palace built in a picturesque alpine setting by Ludwig II of Bavaria.
Sadly for him, Ludwig never had a chance to live in the place, as he died before it was completed. He actually died under what I will diplomatically call “ununsual circumstances”: having been declared legally insane and deposed by the Bavarian government the previous day, Ludwig drowned while going for a swim with his accountant in a nearby lake.
Despite never being completed, the castle did in fact leave two important footprints in history: it inspired Disney’s Cinderella Castle, and it was used in the movie Spaceballs as Castle Druidia.
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