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King Ludwig's Palaces

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August 27, 2022

In the 19th-century, King Ludwig II's buildings drained Bavaria's treasury. Now, as popular tourist sites, they rake money in. The fairy-tale king never saw Neuschwanstein Castle and the Herrenchiemsee Palaces completed.

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