Turret-ly in love with castles? Germany's southern Bavaria region might be your ideal holiday destination - because as these eye-catching pictures show, it's festooned with fairytale-like citadels ...

This is one of the most iconic castles in the world. Located in Germany, in southern Bavaria, Neuschwanstein Castle is a magnificent location with a vantage point over the entire region.

Below, we highlight some of Germany's most stunning castles open ... come to life at Neuschwanstein, a 19th-century castle in the Bavarian Alps that Disneyland Resort used as inspiration when ...

You can admire the photogenic setting on one of the many wooded trails, or from Marienbrücke, a bridge suspended over a waterfall that offers spectacular photo-ops of the castle and Bavarian Alps.

And the castles in the animated fairy tales "Cinderella" and "Sleeping Beauty" are also modeled after the Bavarian castle. As a reclusive dreamer, King Ludwig II built the castle just for himself.