NEUSCHWANSTEIN CASTLE (Fairy Tale Castle)

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Neuschwanstein Castle (New Swanstone Castle) is a 19th century Romanesque Revival palace on a hill above the village of Hohenschwangau in southwest Bavaria, Germany. The palace was commissioned by Ludwig II of Bavaria as a defeat and as a homage to Richard Wagner. Ludwig paid for the palace out of his personal fortune and by means of huge borrowing, rather than Bavarian public funds.


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