Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Eltz Castle is commonly known as Burg Eltz, Burg being the translation for “castle” in German. The first written evidence of ...

While Bavaria commands most of the spotlight when castle talk begins, Germany’s other regions shelter architectural marvels that rarely make the travel brochures. These fortresses tell stories of ...

Germany’s fairy-tale castles are calling! In this episode, we visit Neuschwanstein Castle, the legendary structure that ...

If you have been dreaming of a vacation that is so serene and feels like you are walking through the set of a historical romance, listen up. Tucked away in the Harz region of central Germany, ...

Rothenburg is still Germany's best-preserved walled town. In the Middle Ages, Rothenburg was Germany's second-largest city with a population of 6,000. Rolf Richardson / Alamy Twenty-five years ago, I ...

Germany has around 20,000 castles spread across the country. The total includes intact structures, partial ruins, foundations, and documented sites where castles once stood. Together, they form one of ...

Germany's Neushwanstein is a textbook-like example of 19th-century Romanticism. In 1869, King Ludwig began building his medieval fantasy on the hilltop not for defensive reasons, but because he liked ...

As a young backpacker, I first fell in love with the picturesque village of Rothenburg, in Germany’s Franconian heartland. At that time, the town still fed a few farm animals within its medieval walls ...

What is it about castles that fascinates so many people around the globe? A lot of the allure derives from the history and human drama that played out within the walls, as well as the astonishing ...

A bronze weapon found in Kletzke, Germany appears to date back to 1390, which would make it the oldest-known handgun ever ...