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Neuschwanstein Castle

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Wonder Type: Cultural

Country: Germany

Best of: Architecture, Romanesque Revival, Palace, Castle

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Neuschwanstein Castle (German: Schloss Neuschwanstein, English: New Swanstone Castle") is a nineteenth-century Romanesque Revival palace on a rugged hill above the village of Hohenschwangau near Füssen in southwest Bavaria, Germany. The palace was commissioned by Ludwig II of Bavaria as a retreat and as a homage to Richard Wagner. Ludwig paid for the palace out of his personal fortune and by means of extensive borrowing, rather than Bavarian public funds" [More Details]

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