Article: travel: Bavaria... land of mad kings and fairy castles.(Features)

Byline: BARBARA GOULDEN

KING LUDWIG ll - the castle-builder of Bavaria - may well have gone totally mad towards the end of his 19th century reign. But the legacy of extravagant, gold-leafed palaces he left behind continue to be the best thing that ever happened to the German tourist industry.

The imaginative king, who didn't live long enough to see the completion of most of his fantasy building projects, was born in 1845 at Nymphenburg Castle, then on the outskirts of Munich.

These days modern Munich has crept out to surround the castle, set in its ...

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