Neuschwanstein Castle
Romantic hilltop palace of turrets and Wagner-themed halls, built for a king who lived there briefly.
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This guide to Neuschwanstein Castle near Füssen turns on a single June night in eighteen eighty-six, when King Ludwig the Second of Bavaria came face to face with the psychiatrist sent to take his crown. It touches his ruinous building debts, his devotion to Richard Wagner, and a standoff at the castle gate two days earlier. Best heard looking up at the towers from the courtyard.
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