The Herrenchiemsee Festival is a royal treat for music, musicians, and especially audiences. Music doesn’t, in times where there are few kings and still fewer royalty that actively stoke the flames of ...

King Ludwig II's castles are world-famous with Neuschwanstein Castle leading the way, but DW's Caroline Schmitt visited Herrenchiemsee instead. Is the solitude that Bavaria's fairy-tale king longed ...

A great honour for Herrenchiemsee: on 12 July, UNESCO declared the world-famous palace a World Heritage Site. At the conference in Paris, not only Herrenchiemsee was added to the list, but also the ...

Rising from the heart of Lake Chiemsee, Herrenchiemsee Palace embodies the extragavant dream of King Ludwig II of Bavaria. Inspired by Versailles, this jewel of architecture was officially designated ...

The fourth edition of the Königsklasse exhibition, which opened in Bavaria in May (until 3 October), begins with Wolfgang Laib’s enormous pair of four-metre-high, 2,000kg beeswax ziggurats. Visitors ...

The King Ludwig II Museum in Herrenchiemsee, Bavaria, be open to the public again at the end of April after extensive construction work. A special exhibition will show never seen designs for ...

Explore the life of King Ludwig II of Bavaria, the visionary behind Neuschwanstein Castle and other stunning palaces. This ...

This serial property consists of four grand palace complexes in Bavaria’s alpine region, built under King Ludwig II between 1868 and 1886. Designed as personal retreats and imaginative escapes, they ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Miriam Porter is based in Toronto and covers vegan and kind travel. Germany’s Free State of Bavaria is famous for the stunning ...