44 entries found for "palaces"

Freudenberg Palace in Wiesbaden is a magical place with a large park area and a unique main exhibition that encourages visitors to use all their senses.

Bückeburg Palace in Lower Saxony is still the ancestral seat of the Princes of Schaumburg-Lippe, sparkling as one of the most stunning gems within the Schaumburg Land region.

The largest and most magnificent palace in the whole of Berlin is named after Sophia Charlotte, Duchess of Brunswick and Lüneburg, wife of Prussian King Frederick I and the first Queen Consort in Prus...

Hämelschenburg Palace combines many of the features you would expect from a stately palace: a splendid design with three wings and moats, a fortified bridge and two impressive octagonal staircase towe...

Taking inspiration from King Louis XIV of France, Bavaria's 'fairytale king' Ludwig II had a luxurious castle built on Herrenwörth Island in Lake Chiemsee in 1878. Unfortunately, he didn't live to see...

Of the four palaces that Ludwig II had built, Linderhof is perhaps the most inventive as a small yet perfectly formed summer castle in a remote location in the Graswang Valley.

A formerly modest hunting lodge transformed into a huge palace with three wings: Not many other regents in Europe were able to bring their dreams of the ultimate residence to life in such glamorous st...

Situated in Mecklenburg, near Schwerin, this late-baroque palace and park ensemble doesn't fail to impress and amaze. And yet appearances can be deceiving, with many of the decorative elements in the ...

A Moorish-style mosque, picturesque artificial ruins, a marble bath house and a magnificent Apollo temple are all features of the stunning Schwetzingen Palace.

In 1789, under Goethe's influence, Duke Karl August initiated the rebuild of the classicist city palace and work began on designs for the Park on the Ilm, a picturesque parkland covering some 50 hecta...