Visitors buy a ticket for entrance to the entire estate, so they get to see the living spaces and original artworks as well as the pond and gardens. The German town of Ludwigsburg, just outside of ...

Germany honours its heritage of myths, legends and folklore with a dedicated Fairy Tale Route ... Originally designed as a garden feature, but later used as a secret love nest, the towered ...

Of his work, Jacob Grimm (he of the Brothers Grimm, of course) once said, “Nowhere in the whole of Germany is anyone collecting [fairy tales] so accurately, thoroughly and with such a sensitive ...

Fighting for the rights of ceramic garden gnomes might sound ... based on the most famous German fairy tale, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves". In Germany especially hills and densely wooded ...

Tiny fairy doors placed at the base of trees or in gardens are thought to invite fairies to visit—or keep them from causing mischief! Germany (especially Bavaria) has a long tradition of gnomes ...

ONCE upon a time — about 200 years ago to be more precise — there were two brothers, Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm, who lived in the Kingdom of Hesse, now part of Germany. They loved fairy tales and ...