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High in the Alpine foothills of Germany sits one of the most iconic castles in Europe. The “fairy-tale” king, Ludwig II of Bavaria, built this dazzling Neuschwanstein palace to withdraw from public life after losing his power in the Austro-Prussian war. It’s believed that he built his new castle as the centerpiece for an imagined kingdom-one in which he was the true king.
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@NatGeo 6 лет назад

This palace looks so magical! Did you know the Neuschwanstein palace was the inspiration for the castles in Disney's Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty?

@ace1776 6 лет назад

Wow how ironic. He built it to get away from the public and now they flock to it.

@Tonygrum 6 лет назад

Ironic is also the fact that he was broke due to the three castels he decided to build...and now those 3 buildings (that led his family almost to bankruptcy) generate million of Euro every year! LOL

@heyJustephan 3 года назад

He did long term investment. ;D

@jaranis9273 Год назад

@@heyJustephan took a long-term investment to a whole new meaning

@user-fu5cd8bp1v 6 лет назад

I want to visit this castle so bad!! How mind blowing and magnificent is this place! I just imagine myself living in there with this beautiful view.So satisfying..

@Suptamoto 6 лет назад

Its nice. I was there last year

@maplehouseknives 6 лет назад

It's a unique place to visit when it's not COMPLETELY rammed with tourists!

@Suptamoto 6 лет назад

Ya, it was insanely busy when i was there.

@divass77 6 лет назад

I wish I could build a castle like this because of my shyness. :)

@user-ki6id4vt8u Год назад

May Allah bless you :)

@swarnendudas6265 6 лет назад

That badass bridge at the top of the mountain

@ChefRafi 6 лет назад

I have a painting of Neuschwanstein by my father!

@NatGeo 6 лет назад

Wow, the painting must be very beautiful!

@ChefRafi 6 лет назад

National Geographic it is. I wish I could go there some day. Your summer pics are amazing!!

@adityaavasekar2584 4 года назад

Please can you show me the painting

@tomahawk1556 2 года назад

🙏 Thank You So Much National Geographic for All these Informative & Enjoyable to watch Shorts of Famous & Interesting Subjects! 🌷🌿🌍

@ButtersTheBean 6 лет назад

Yes please!

@halla9427 6 лет назад

I've already visited the castle two times - it's a beautiful place, but many tourists haha

@KynsonMitchell 6 лет назад

I've been here in google earth vr! I love hopping on the top and looking down and the fields/towns lol

@kurtp5379 6 лет назад

This brief snippet does not do this beautiful castle justice!

@hmdre206 6 лет назад

Its really beautiful even though not completed inside..what a pity that cameras are not allowed inside, but good in some ways though

@chartreux1532 6 лет назад

Just around the corner from where i live and yeah we get a hell of a lot of tourists here from all around the world. It was built by the bavarian king Ludwig II. who we here in Bavaria also call "Der Märchenkönig" (english: The Fairy Tale King). If you want to read about him: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_II_of_Bavaria

@fabiolamadonna5277 2 года назад

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@mcfhordeecatunao7617 6 лет назад

Wow!😃 just like in simcity!

@bigjobby11 6 лет назад

Cant believe u didnt mention chitty chitty bang bang was filmed here!

@Toledo_Kits 4 года назад

🤩🥰😍😘I wish if I could visit the Fairy Tale Castles🏰🙂🙂🙂.

@AxelTube 6 лет назад

Miracle....

@markherron1407 5 месяцев назад

King Louis II OF Bavaria the SWAN KING IS Ace OF Clubs ♣and a version of Michael Jackson REST IN POWER 👑💜

@judck 6 лет назад

I had a 5000 pieces puzzle with that castle

@albinmathew2212 6 лет назад

Can you please upload ultimate airpot dubai

@albinmathew2212 6 лет назад

No Dogma Mama I am interested in flight. So thats why I ask them to upload ultimate airport dubai

@Paul-tj5ox 6 лет назад

Albin Mathew then this might be the wrong channel for you nat geo is focused on history and science especially wildlife

@albinmathew2212 6 лет назад

Pixxrl if this is not that channel can you tell me which channel is ultimate airport dubai

@Paul-tj5ox 6 лет назад

Albin Mathew everythingVEVO

@rbas4344 6 лет назад

can tell me name this music

@edsonassim905 3 года назад

Oi linda família

@lotussubs 6 лет назад

You're the best guys

@Nonchalant1996 6 лет назад

How much does it cost? I’ve been looking for a new place to move to

@spinnetti 6 лет назад

Hohenschwangaunext door is much cooler, and a real castle! (been to both a number of times)

@joesmith3829 6 лет назад

yeah, but does it have a working toilet?

@知留知留 6 лет назад

360° please !

@NatGeo 6 лет назад

Thanks for the suggestion! We'll try to include 360 videos on our channel.

@oki5827 6 лет назад

this castle will be converted to mosque soon...

@quantum5224 2 года назад

not beautiful, visit to mysore palace mesmerizes you, even though everyone has stolen lot chunk of it, still it is more beautiful and expensive than this palace, remember they have looted 65 trillion dollars from india but still did not built a good fort.

@jonathanl6863 2 года назад

this is not even in Britain it's in Germany

@reaff2130 6 лет назад

2st

@wolf2109 6 лет назад

*and ppl say the Pyramids are cool....yea, no!* 😎

@Dislob 6 лет назад

Wolf pyramids were build WAYYY before european castles with little to no knowledge and materials. They are engineering marvels from the past. Most pyramids were build 2000 years BC You abselutly can not compare them to a modern castle built a few hundred years ago.

@jonwick730 6 лет назад

The pyramids were built around 2500BC,which is 4500 years ago and are by far a greater feat of engineering,not to say that this is not incredible but by no means can it be compared to the great pyramids!

@wolf2109 6 лет назад

Dis lob3 u say little to no knoweledge and materials yet the precise cuts of the stones cnt be made without tools.

@user-kp5uy8vd8o 6 лет назад

Wolf what do you get by making this comment. You had no hand in making this castle. Why are you so full of pride ?

@thnktank1 6 лет назад

Assumed when he said "with little to no knowledge" he meant that we still have little to no knowledge of how they accomplished such an impressive feat of building the pyramids. You're late.

@AssToBrass 6 лет назад

That’s mine

@pasanfernando6217 6 лет назад

shy king may not like the fact that lots of ppl visiting his castle...!!!

@RoKuSa007 6 лет назад

Wow just magnificent 👍😍😉😘

@kp2718 6 лет назад

I have seen the outside million times, what's inside?

@hanakeron 6 лет назад

Its actually not allowed to take pics there

@kimsd2515 6 лет назад

Visit wikipedia, there are some pictures inside of castle there.

@uhturtle_6998 6 лет назад

Any Faster 0:55 :p there

@kurtweinstein8450 6 лет назад

Yeah the public can't take pictures inside. To describe it in short it is even more of a fantasy castle on the inside. The rooms are decorated with themes from Wagner's Ring Cycle.

@frey7631 6 лет назад

There is even a artificial stalactite grotto inside and many other opulent decors out of a fairy tale.

@chippawa2014 6 лет назад

I can see it had some inspiration for j k rolling for Harry potter

@chartreux1532 6 лет назад

+Jessalyn Travis Many writers get inspiration for their castles from our castles and fortresses here in Germany. Not only in Bavaria we have a lot of them, in fact we have over 20.000 castles throughout Germany. Neuschwanstein is just the most famous one that looks like it's from a fairy tale, but there are plenty more. Neuschwanstein is just around the corner from where i live. We also get the most tourists here, but i urge anyone who ever wants to travel and visit castles like this, there are so many more, often even close by to other ones especially along the Rhine River and on the "Burgstraße" in Bavaria

@zubairahmed7214 6 лет назад

Everything and everyone has inspirations.

@chippawa2014 6 лет назад

Zubair Mirza that's true, but I'm still surprised that the shape of the grounds. The boxy main Building and the fact it's on a mountain makes it more surprising that it all came from one spot. Not like I thought it would be

@zubairahmed7214 6 лет назад

Jessalyn Travis Yep... had the same thing on my mind too. Cheers! ☺

@chippawa2014 6 лет назад

Zubair Mirza cheers🤗

@alizaidi8049 6 лет назад

Beautiful

@arrowghost 6 лет назад

Wow, one awesome castle, just as beautiful as Alnwick Castle (inspired for Hogwarts)

@Max-nm2qc 6 лет назад

The castle actually never got finished. The biggest Tower has never been build, caus the costs got out of hand and so the people were sick of paying for some insane project of a mad king.

@Max-nm2qc 6 лет назад

vin 950 No he did not. Besides the income of a monarch usually is based of peoples taxes anyway. Is'nt it?

@pepeluchoz7149 3 года назад

so its cool

@BenJamin-ou7kd 6 лет назад

Found something money can't buy!!????

@PINOYHORRORTV 6 лет назад

Wow!😘😘😍😍😍😍😍

@chartreux1532 6 лет назад

+Mr600_theprodigy Its special but there are lover 20.000 castles that we have here in Germany. I live arond the corner from this one so its not special to me because i grew up with it and playing in the woods around it but otherwise it's very special, otherwise there wouldn't be millions of tourists from all around the world coming here all around the year, especially in Winter when everything is white

@Screwsandrods 6 лет назад

Beautiful! It's the history of the castle that's most interesting! 🙏🏻

@donnerschwein Год назад

frankly the history compared to other European castles is actually not that interesting

@อาคมมากบุญ-ภ7ฐ 3 года назад

สาเหตุ

@tjreid2517 6 лет назад

Ice Cream🏰 In The Sky...🇩🇪🇩🇪

@ScorpionMaster1224 6 лет назад

Dang the king built it to get away from people and now people are all over his castle. Reminds me of shrek who lives alone in the swamp when all of the sudden all the fairy tail creatures are outside his home.

@ابوالخير-ف4ت 2 года назад

Don't translate it to Arabic

@mooseknuckle8334 6 лет назад

Stunning!

@qtayie 6 лет назад

I was here just a couple of days ago 😍

@greatdemonlord006 6 лет назад

Beautiful

@maxling 6 лет назад

Neuschwanstein is, ofc, a beautiful castle. But it's not my most favourite. Just check Satzvey Castle or Eltz Castle. Very old castles (12th Century) and just very beutiful. We have so many nice Castles in Germany, just don't miss them.

@KeepCalmandLoveClassics 2 года назад

Absolute Magical Place ✨ I 💜 Germany 🇩🇪 😊😊

@barbararussell3304 6 лет назад

It's a beautiful castle inside and out. Unfortunately it put Bavaria into deep debt. This is only one castle of three Ludwig built

@user-ty1cf3br4l 6 лет назад

Its palace not castle

@mskwon1564 Год назад

Neuschwanstein Castle ··· A place I definitely want to visit before I die ♥

@andrewb.5996 6 лет назад

Unfortunately it's VERY underwhelming once you visit....

@อาคมมากบุญ-ภ7ฐ 3 года назад

มองไม่เห็นเลย

@อาคมมากบุญ-ภ7ฐ 3 года назад

ที่ท่องเที่ยว

@rubenscott3972 6 лет назад

That’s expensive to make now

@TWIZZTHEWHIZKID 6 лет назад

Bavaria Illuminati Castle

@DavidWang-sf9oe 28 дней назад

Good place🎉I will go there sometime

@lutdevroede4478 6 лет назад

We visited it many times in summer and winter but you must visit it in winter. Imagine when you drive up there through a lane with old lights and it is snowing, white trees, horses, a frozen lake... After a walk of 45 min. uphill the castle appears. When the castle would have been finished it would be romantic beautiful. I prefer his castle Linderhof. It has a nice garden and the interior is all in theme of the swan. The yellow castle Hohenschwangau, on the opposite of Neuschwanstein, is older, inside a typical castle. You can visit both castles and the old town Füssen in one day. Ludwig II had also another castle Herrenchiemsee. He was a very romantic man. There are many beautiful castles but I think the romance, the story, the tragedy, the location makes Neuschwanstein so special.

@mercmer.... 3 года назад

SLOVENIJA ❤️🇸🇮👍

@aspyt322 6 лет назад

Its beautiful wow pls pin me

@dejulietbeaute3826 4 года назад

I'm a fan of fairy's and mermaids even unicorn I know they are real 😀🌝😁😍

@mumanmu 5 месяцев назад

splendid castle 👏 moo 🐮

@noopnoop1340 6 лет назад

I've been here before! It's kind of a long uphill hike to get up to the castle, though.

@NatGeo 6 лет назад

We hope the climb was worth the beautiful view, Rachael!

@Tousanx 6 лет назад

that is beautiful. that feat of engineering in 1866.

@NatGeo 6 лет назад

We can't believe the palace was built so long ago! That's incredible!

@jjandyarlosthesuperbros9480 4 года назад

cool

@Alex10daysago 6 лет назад

its a lot of empty space. and many unfinished walkways were later closed off. they built up walls inside later on to keep tourist from wandering off.

@SoumOrg 6 лет назад

I wanna visit HOGWARTS someday

@MR-wh6ji 6 лет назад

Make Bavaria Great Again!

@tillavanrooyen4182 2 года назад

The enigma called Neuschwanstein. The fairy-tale castle without a fairy tale, or a prince, or princess. Not even a dragon. Or am I mistaken? What I could find out though, was that its builder was a king who worked his poor main architect to suicide. Then he in turn had himself assassinated. Then during WWII it served as a robbers den for art treasures from neighboring countries. From all this, it seems to me like there's a curse on this castle! Maybe this curse is where the fairy tale connection starts!

@GBOY69GAY 6 лет назад

It was built by the Bavarian eccentric homosexual King Ludwig II (25 August 1945 - 13 June 1886), who ruled the Kingdom of Bavaria from 1864 to 1886 and was one of the leading patronages of the German National Romanticism during the 19th Century. Richard Wagner was then his generously supported court composer. King Ludwig II of Bavaria build a lot of magnificent castles during his life. People in Bavaria commonly loved him though he spent a lot of money to those his fantasy castles and his cultural patronage projects, but he was an endless nightmare to his finance ministers, because his ambitious bombastic projects practically ruined the wealthy Bavarian state´s state finances. Ludwig II of Bavaria has been sometimes called the last traditional king in Europe, because he did just what he wanted, quite eccentric way. That is the romantic fairy tale fantasy side of German nationalism and German national romanticism. There was once too the "dark side", which loved Richard Wagner´s music too, lol :) Once upon time, in Europe.....

@zubairahmed7214 6 лет назад

The person to have the lowest Paradise will be equivalent to 10 whole Earths. His Castle will be about 1200-1350 kms wide and long (somewhere in between... i forgot the exact breadth and width). This huge mansion will have bricks of gold and silver. It will have 70,000 rooms and each room will have 70,000 doors. The inhabitants of Paradise will live their forever in bliss and harmony without any imperfections of any kind. Sadly people are away from God's teaching.

@borasethaoudom973 6 лет назад

Everyone who knows the music??? Can u tell me please 🙏🙏

@laurants 6 лет назад

I don’t think the castle in Cinderella had saints on it though 1:00. Very Catholic.

@hanakeron 6 лет назад

The view was splendid, but we were just among thousand of tourist on a single bridge that were taking forever to take selfies 😟

@zenmaster24 6 лет назад

what happened to the other 186 rooms? does someone live in the castle?

@muleradish 6 лет назад

imagine owning that castle and just chilling, getting lost and smoking a blunt in there.

@alexandrosgrivas4406 6 лет назад

It looks good but its not a good castle to defend tho it has nearly no battlements and the windows are very big so a ladder can fit there

@bp6243 6 лет назад

Looks a lot like the castle at the south of Calpheon in BDO

@leevioheikkila 6 лет назад

I visited it last year while on a road trip

@wiseass5045 6 лет назад

wish I were rich or could win the lottery

@Dislob 6 лет назад

wiseass 5000 You can win the lottery. You have around 1/10 000 000 chance. The chances that you will never make any profit from buyimg lottery are 99,99% tho.

@wiseass5045 6 лет назад

Dis lob3 i bought 4 powerball tickets yesterday. im usually too poor to play the lottery but i gave it a shot anyway.

@Dislob 6 лет назад

good luck ! :P