A combination ticket for timed tours of both castles, plus the Museum of the Bavarian Kings, is the best value at 30 euros ($33) per person and must be reserved online in advance.

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 ...

And the castles in the animated fairy tales "Cinderella" and "Sleeping Beauty" are also modeled after the Bavarian castle ... possible as part of a guided tour. Tickets can be purchased either ...

Neuschwanstein Castle (Schloss Neuschwanstein) famously served as the inspiration for Disneyland’s Sleeping Beauty Castle. Built on a rock ledge over the Pöllat Gorge on the site of two smaller ...