List of 10 Most Spectacular Castles Around the World Includes a California Treasure

California’s addition to the list was not completed until 2007.
List of 10 Most Spectacular Castles Around the World Includes a California Treasure
Neuschwanstein Castle is the fantastical Bavarian palace that inspired Disneyland's Sleeping Beauty Castle. Dreamstime/TNS
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By Jackie Burrell From The Mercury News

Blame childhood fairy tales or the Disney effect, but castles cast a spell over even the most level-headed of us. We’re enchanted by the very idea of crenellated ramparts and soaring towers, troubadors, jesters and knights. Not the reality of palace life, mind you—we read “Spare,” we definitely don’t want to be royal—but a peek might be nice. And there are castles round the world happy to oblige.