Neuschwanstein

Friday April 4th was my 13th birthday. My family and I went to Neuschwanstein.
It was a 2 hour train ride from Munich, Germany to Fussen, Germany.
Fussen is right by the Alps. It was less than 5 minutes on the bus to the hill where
we got the tickets. Then it took like 30 or 40 minutes to walk up the hill to the castle.
The tour was 30 minutes long.

THE HISTORY OF NEUSCHWANSTEIN
King Ludwig II(pronounced Ludvig)started building Neuschwanstein
in 1869. When he died on June 13th, 1886, they stopped building it. It took 17 yrs. Ludwig only lived in the castle 172 days before he died. Only ⅓ of the rooms are furnished. When it became a museum they put in a caffe and gift shop etc… for the visitors.
King Ludwig's bed canopy took 4 yrs. to make or carve. Off of his
bedroom, he had his own private chapel. In the living room there are 120 swans everywhere… on the curtains, painted on the wall etc…. In a few of the rooms there is the same swan statue thing.
Ludwig liked swans. The living room was dedicated to the "Swan
Prince" (whoever he was). His favorite composer was Richard Wagner. There was a cave sort of thing in the castle.

Here are some pics……….