Schwansee
Shallow, mountain-shaded lake in a royal landscape park, loved by summer swimmers and winter skaters.
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This guide to the Schwansee in Schwangau, just outside Füssen, follows a small shaded lake through its seasons, from winter skaters to the first swimmers of spring. It reaches back to the eighteen-thirties, when Crown Prince Maximilian of Bavaria and the garden designer Peter Joseph Lenné set out to make a private pleasure ground of this marshy ground. Best heard at the water's edge, with Hohenschwangau Castle above you.
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