At the entrance to Neuschwanstein Castle.
Image taken from Neuschwanstein Castle.
Entrance to the grotto from Ludwig's study which was equipped with a waterfall at one time.
Neuschwanstein Castle (German: Schloss Neuschwanstein, pronounced [nɔʏˈʃvaːnʃtaɪn]) (phonetically: noy-shwan-stine, lit. "new swanstone") is a 19th-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 an homage to Richard Wagner. Ludwig paid for the palace out of his personal fortune and extensive borrowing, not with Bavarian public funds (see below).