Schwansee Park
Royal landscape park of lakeside meadows, rare orchids and gentians, with views of two castles.
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This guide to the Schwansee Park below Hohenschwangau, near Füssen, follows the meadows rather than the castles. It moves from the landscape park Crown Prince Maximilian commissioned in the eighteen-thirties to a Wittelsbach duke who walked here in the nineteen-eighties and noticed his favourite flowers were missing. Best heard on the lakeside path, looking across the open grass.
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