Article written in October 2012, shortly after my visit on the occcasion of the wedding of Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume of Luxembourg and Countess Stéphanie de Lannoy. On 22 April 2023 another royal wedding will take place, only the civil one, of Guillaume’s sister Princess Alexandra and Nicolas Bagory. I still haven’t gone back by …
Should King Ludwig’s castles become a UNESCO World Heritage Site?
In 2015 the royal castles of King Ludwig II of Bavaria were officially registered with the World Heritage Centre in Paris on the German tentative list for nomination as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Bavarian Palace Department is to submit the nomination dossier and management plan to the UNESCO Commission for review on 1 …