Castles and palaces
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Kunětice Mountain Castle
Kunětice Mountain Castle stands on the highest hill of the plain outside Pardubice. Once the fortress of a Hussite leader and burned down in…
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Dankwarderode Castle
Palace of Henry the Lion on Braunschweig’s Burgplatz, rebuilt in Romanesque Revival style in the 19th century – today home to the medieval department…
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Walzin Castle
Castle on a rock more than 50 metres high above a bend of the River Lesse near Dinant – privately owned and only visible…
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Castle of Freÿr
Renaissance castle on the bank of the Meuse at Hastière, with gardens said to follow the model of Versailles, old orange trees and what…
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Würzburg Residence
Baroque palace of the prince-bishops of Würzburg by Balthasar Neumann – with Tiepolo’s huge ceiling fresco above the staircase, a UNESCO World Heritage Site…
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Marienberg Fortress
Castle and Baroque fortress about 100 metres above the Main – for almost five centuries the seat of the prince-bishops of Würzburg, today home…
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Citadel of Dinant
Fortress on the rock above Dinant and the River Meuse – today a museum, also reached by cable car, with views over the town…
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Brunswick Palace
Reconstructed façade of the classicist residence of the Dukes of Brunswick – today with a quadriga, the palace museum, the city library and a…
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High Castle of Füssen
Late Gothic castle above Füssen’s old town, once a seat of the bishops of Augsburg – known for the painted trompe-l’œil architecture in its…
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Neuschwanstein Castle
King Ludwig II’s unfinished castle on a rocky ridge above Hohenschwangau in the Bavarian Allgäu – built in Romanesque Revival style from 1869 and…