The Other Spot

Neuschwanstein Castle, located in Bavaria – Germany,  must be one of the most desirable tourist destinations in the world. It must be because his image, an architectural beauty in stone, surrounded by a landscape that makes one sigh, adorned countless calendars, pictures, posters and so on. This majestic work one of the candidates for new Wonders of the World.

The castle is located in the region of Fuessen old city surrounded by ancient castles, monasteries and castles. Nearby there is even an ancient Roman road, the Via Claudia, which crosses the land from Wuerzburg to Innsbruck. The whole region is surrounded by beautiful mountains of the Alps, lakes, waterfalls and mirrored.

Neuschwanstein means New swan stone, and was so named after the Swan Knight Wagner’s famous opera of the same name. It was built in the late 19th century in Germany near the Austrian border. (Google Earth coordinates 47 ° 33’16 “N, 10 ° 44’10″ E).

Its construction was started by King Ludwig (Louis II) of Bavaria, known as the mad Ludwig. They laid the foundation stone on 5 September 1869. The design architect is due to Christian Jank. Ludwig asked his architect to be built entirely with raw materials and people Bavarian Bavarians. I wanted to resemble castles out of fairytales, and inside should have all the technological advances of the moment. It is said that Ludwig used the funds to build the kingdom so majestic building, but the truth is that he used his own money.

Neuschwanstein has 360 rooms and only 14 have a completely finished design, the others were left unfinished because Ludwig was deposed as king in 1886, and then died mysteriously. The castle was opened to the public shortly thereafter. These 14 rooms are decorated in an unparalleled luxury, with paintings and tapestries with scenes from Richard Wagner’s operas, of which Ludwig was a great admirer.