Tour of the castle of Bavarian kings

• Tour of the castle of Bavarian kings

Linderhof - one of the three projects of the castle of King Ludwig II, who along with Herrenchiemsee and the hallmark of Bavaria - Neuschwanstein. It is the smallest king's castle and the only unfinished during his lifetime. In truth, the word "lock" is not very suitable for this place, in the Russian language, there is a more appropriate word - mansion: here and the palace, and a park and gazebo and grotto, and a variety of other structures built for a royal entertainment. The scale of the place can be estimated from the map, as the attentive reader will notice the size of the parking.

The farmstead is open daily, except Christmas, New Year and another couple of holidays, but in any case from the visit after 16 October should be abandoned, since the fountains, sculptures and park facilities will be closed. And it is extremely advisable to visit any places go to the official site and check it out.

Prices for tickets range from 2 to 8, 5 euros. Palace Grotto and can only be visited as part of guided tours in English or German. The tour lasts 25 minutes, no audio guides. We were lucky - we arrived to a group with a Russian guide. electronic queue principle here also works well and is strictly forbidden to shoot at the castle.

After the palace tour, visitors have plenty of time to walk unhurried pace to the grotto, but if you move away much of the route - a chance to wait for the next one. And the temptation to walk quite large.

On trips to the grotto of Venus, we got out of the Russian-speaking group, as a German tour guide visiting it gets a bit lengthy: a grotto - a small, artificial room with interesting decorations and light and music effects, which start only after the guide fulfills its program. When Ludwig II are put scenes from operas, which are sometimes the king listened to directly sitting in a boat.

After this tour we were left to themselves, and focused only on what not to come to Kenigzsee too late.

Nice to see how the palace is immersed in the alpine greenery. That's somewhere here I also wanted to become king

By the way, on the greens. Do you know how to look alpine meadows? In this case, advertising is not lying, unless peacefully grazing cows here we have not met - a royal park, after all. But on the pond we met inadequate swans, sometimes attacking lyudey.

As is known, Ludwig II was admirers Wagner and distal end of the park ordered to build scenery to its opera Valkiriya. See there is nothing, but for the entrance still denyushku take.

Gate is quite true, closed itself.

This is only a small part of the 80 hectares that takes Linderhof manor park. Do not be surprised if German pensioners come here just to take a walk and get some fresh air. For the convenience of visitors here, in a building with more than a hundred years of history, there is a hotel. If you believe the description on the website, the hotel was recently renovated and the interior photos is quite pleasant. The stated price for a double room with breakfast - 111 euros.