In the flat green countryside of the Munsterland, surrounded by wide moats and a vast baroque park, stands the largest moated palace in Westphalia. Nordkirchen Palace is often called the

Many of the castles in this series are fairy tales, romantic fantasies built or rebuilt in the nineteenth century to look the way we imagine castles should look. The Imperial

On the western edge of Munich, a palace stretches its pale wings so far across the landscape that you cannot take it in with a single glance. Nymphenburg, the “Nymph’s

In a small town east of Dessau, a palace and its gardens tell the story of a Dutch princess who brought the style of her homeland to the heart of

Just north of Berlin, where the river Havel winds through flat green countryside, stands the oldest baroque palace in the Brandenburg region. Oranienburg Palace was built for a Dutch princess,

On the banks of the Elbe, a few kilometres upstream from Dresden, a cluster of palaces with curving, Chinese inspired roofs stands among vineyards, gardens and old trees. Pillnitz was

At the end of a long avenue of chestnut trees in Bonn stands a baroque palace with an unusual secret: a perfectly round arcaded courtyard at its heart. Poppelsdorf Palace

On the shore of a quiet lagoon in the middle of the island of Rugen stands a castle with towers, gables and turrets that looks like a nineteenth century dream

Four towers in the style of the Loire, a park by Pückler’s pupil, Viking silver under the lawn and a pirate who loses his head every summer evening. Welcome to Ralswiek on the island of Rügen.

In the gentle countryside of Upper Lusatia, east of Dresden, stands one of the most beautiful rural baroque palaces in Saxony. Rammenau Palace was built in the early eighteenth century