. Eight journeys abroad. SCHLOSS HOHENSCHWANGAU So the morning was given up to the Castle of Neuschwan-stein, built by King Ludwig on the foundations of an oldcastle in the most romantic location, on top of a high cragwith great rocky gorges all around it and higher mountainswith cataracts of water dashing down into the gorges. It isbuilt all of white stone and is dazzling to look at—is modeledsomewhat after the Wartburg at Eisenach. The great hallof the Troubadours has a stage at one end and here Ludwigused to have the Wagner Opera given for himself alone. 390 GERMANY, SWITZERLAND AND AUSTRIA
. Eight journeys abroad. SCHLOSS HOHENSCHWANGAU So the morning was given up to the Castle of Neuschwan-stein, built by King Ludwig on the foundations of an oldcastle in the most romantic location, on top of a high cragwith great rocky gorges all around it and higher mountainswith cataracts of water dashing down into the gorges. It isbuilt all of white stone and is dazzling to look at—is modeledsomewhat after the Wartburg at Eisenach. The great hallof the Troubadours has a stage at one end and here Ludwigused to have the Wagner Opera given for himself alone. 390 GERMANY, SWITZERLAND AND AUSTRIA Magnificent scarcely expresses the costliness of all the deco-rations. One room was all of foliage in wood carving, gilded,coming way out from the corners and spreading over theceiling. The frescoes were all of subjects from the Parsifal,of Wolfram von Eschingen and the Niebelungen and Lohen-. NEUSCHWANSTEINCastle of the King of Bavaria grin, as this is the country associated with the Swan legendand everywhere through the castle the swan was in every-thing, blue and white leather cushions with swan design,embroidered on the curtains. In the dining room the centre piece for flowers was a greatwhite swan. On some of the balconies you could imagine 391 EIGHT JOURNEYS ABROAD Elsa just as in the Opera. The other castle Hohenschwangau,High swan place happened to be occupied by one of theroyal family and so could not be seen, so we ate our lunchand started off for Oberammergau by the shortest road, with
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