趣味学英语（25）：一生中必去的10个梦幻城堡
10 fairy-tale castles you must visit in your lifetime
迪士尼乐园的睡美人城堡是不是让你怦然心动？其实它的原型就是德国的新天鹅城堡。今天我们要带你了解世界上最梦幻的10个城堡，一起走入现实中的童话世界吧。
1. Neuschwanstein Castle (Germany) 新天鹅城堡（德国）
The fantasy castle about which other fantasy castles have fantasies. This elaborate slice of Romanesque Revival perches on a hilltop above the village of Hohenschwangau in southern Germany. It was crafted in the late 19th century (between 1869
and 1886, to be precise), to the ostentatious tastes of Ludwig II, King of Bavaria. Sadly for the man in question, he died in the same year that his dream residence was finished. His consolation (in the afterlife anyway) is that Schloss
Neuschwanstein (whose name translates as New Swanstone Castle) has become the blueprint for such wildly flamboyant structures. It was the inspiration for the “Sleeping Beauty Castle” which lights up Disneyland in California.
新天鹅城堡是梦幻城堡中的梦幻城堡。这座古罗马式复兴风格建筑坐落在德国南部霍恩施万高村的一个山顶上，是为了迎合巴伐利亚“疯王”路德维希二世的奢华品味于19世纪晚期（准确时间是1869到1886年）兴建的。可惜的是，城堡建好的同一年路德维希二世就去世了。能让他（在来世）感到安慰的是，新天鹅城堡后来成为了奢华梦幻城堡的模板。美国加州迪士尼乐园睡美人城堡的灵感就来源于新天鹅城堡。
2. Lichtenstein Castle (Germany) 利希滕斯坦城堡（德国）
The south of Germany has a thing for castles which sigh with splendor. Not too far from Neuschwanstein (110 miles to the north-west, in the neighbouring state of Baden-Wurttemburg), this stately pile was built in the Gothic Revival style between 1840 and 1842. It perches on an escarpment in the Swabian Jura, some 250 metres above the Echaz River – its position all but demanding that any passing princes clamber up its walls to rescue any princesses who happen to be inside. Even more romantically, the ruins of its own medieval predecessor on the bluff, Burg Alt-Lichtenstein, sit immediately next to it.
德国南部特别钟爱这种壮丽的城堡。利希滕斯坦城堡距离新天鹅城堡不是太远（在新天鹅城堡西北方向110英里处，约合177公里，位于邻近的巴登-符腾堡州）。这座哥特复兴风格的宏伟城堡于1840年到1842年间兴建，坐落在斯瓦比亚汝拉山的一座悬崖上，距离山脚下的伊查兹河约250米——似乎在召唤着路过的王子爬上城墙来拯救城堡中的公主。更浪漫的是，该城堡在中世纪的前身——老利希滕斯坦城堡的废墟就在新堡旁边。
3. Ljubljana Castle (Slovenia) 卢布尔雅那城堡（斯洛文尼亚）
Slovenia’s capital is a true box of delights – so small and picturesque that you start to wonder whether the locals have
somehow concealed the uglier portions of the city. And it is topped by the medieval masterpiece which shapes its skyline. Initially built in the 11th and 12th centuries, and remodelled in the 15th, it has lost some of its fortress snarl – but it rewards those who make the walk upwards to sip a coffee in one of its pretty courtyards.
斯洛文尼亚的首都是个充满惊喜的城市——这个风景如画的小城让人好奇当地人是不是把城市的丑陋一面给隐藏起来了。其中最赞的就是这座描画出天际线的中世纪杰出建筑。卢布尔雅那城堡最初兴建于11到12世纪，后于15世纪进行改造，改造后的城堡丧失了一些堡垒的威严，但方便人们登上城堡，在美丽的庭院中品味咖啡。
趣味学英语(25)：一生中必去的10个梦幻城堡 - 图文
