Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty's castles are real - and not just at Disneyland. The real-life inspiration for these iconic palaces is Germany's Neuschwanstein Castle, which can be found in the ...

Meanwhile, early Disney imagineer Herb Ryman created the first sketches of Disneyland's Sleeping Beauty Castle based on the designs of real-life European castles, including Germany's ...

Below, we highlight some of Germany's most stunning castles ... a 19th-century castle in the Bavarian Alps that Disneyland Resort used as inspiration when designing Sleeping Beauty Castle.

The reclusive “Fairy Tale King” who inspired Disneyland’s castle escaped ... art exhibit examining the influence of Franco-German castles on Disney theme park architecture runs through ...

Long before it helped to inspire Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disneyland, Neuschwanstein was a refuge for Germany’s King Ludwig II of Bavaria who spent much of his kingdom’s fortune building castles.

The reclusive “Fairy Tale King” who inspired Disneyland’s castle escaped the responsibilities of royalty and reality in a fantasy world mountaintop palace where he led a “Once Upon a Time ...

“It’s a German thing,” says Andreas ... The inspiration for Disneyland’s Sleeping Beauty castle, it was built as a retreat and in honour of composer Richard Wagner, whom King Ludwick ...

The reclusive “Fairy Tale King” who inspired Disneyland’s castle escaped the responsibilities of royalty and reality in a fantasy world mountaintop palace where he led a “Once Upon a Time ...