The Eltz Castle is commonly known as Burg Eltz, Burg being the translation for “castle” in German. The first written evidence ...

More than 25,000 castles crown the hills of Germany, so it can be difficult to ... schedules or close entirely in the winter. (Getty Images)| Princess fantasies come to life at Neuschwanstein ...

Turret-ly in love with castles? Germany's southern Bavaria region might be your ideal holiday destination - because as these eye-catching pictures show, it's festooned with fairytale-like citadels ...