A Castle Without a Throne: How the Tragedy of a Lonely King Turned Into the World's Most Beautiful Fairy Tale

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On the Marienbrücke (German: Marienbrücke), hanging over the eerie Pöllat Gorge, there is barely room to turn around: dozens of tourists are holding up their phones to capture the same shot – the white towers of Neuschwanstein rising straight from the rock. Everyone gets the shot. The world recognizes this castle without even knowing its name: Germany has about 25 thousand castles and palaces, but ask any inhabitant of the continent to close the…