More on Neuschwanstein
By traveltripz on Apr 28, 2007 in Germany, Europe
We enter the castle and just stare in wonder at the beauty that unfolds. What a magnificent collection of fine arts and treasures for King Ludwig to have lived amongst. It’s no wonder that he had the government of the time concerned about his ever rising debt, as he continued to build one castle after another.
The interior of Neuschwanstein is beautifully ornate and the 2 story Byzantine style throne room has a floor of individually chiseled tiles and a series of pillars in imitation porphyry and lapis lazuli. The throne however, was never built.
The Kings bedroom is furnished in Gothic style and it reportedly took 14 woodcarvers four years to complete the elaborate oak carvings for the room. The elaborately carved bed resembles a gothic church with its towers and tracery windows.
On the walls are paintings showing scenes from the epic by the medieval German poet Gottfried von Straßburg, Tristan and Isolde. The bedroom has a hidden locked door which leads to a private toilet.There is just so much to see and unfortunately photography is not permitted inside and the guides are very strict about this.
A truly memorable experience that we recommend you see. I guess we can be thankful for the excesses of past kings and queens or none of these magnificent structures would be around to delight us today, even though the populace suffered at the time to pay for them.
So after being sated with the extravagances of a bygone era we set off down the hill back to the ticketing area to catch the coach back to Munich.
