5/9/2018 5:12:00 PM
Neuschwanstein Castle（新天鵝城堡）
暑假去哪玩？山山水水都看過了，不妨去城堡里看一看，感受不一樣的景色。
新天鵝城堡（德國）
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.
新天鵝城堡是夢幻城堡中的夢幻城堡。這座古羅馬式復興風格建筑坐落在德國南部霍恩施萬高村的一個山頂上，是為了迎合巴伐利亞“瘋王”路德維希二世的奢華品味于19世紀晚期（準確時間是1869到1886年）興建的?？上У氖?，城堡建好的同一年路德維希二世就去世了。能讓他（在來世）感到安慰的是，新天鵝城堡后來成為了奢華夢幻城堡的模板。美國加州迪士尼樂園睡美人城堡的靈感就來源于新天鵝城堡。
Chateau de Chinon (France)
希儂城堡（法國）
The Loire Valley is, of course, a glittering cornucopia of fine castles and tall-towered flights of fancy - a legacy of the 15th and 16th centuries, when French royal power was concentrated here, and the Gallic nobility dutifully constructed their mansions close to the throne. Admittedly, Chinon pre-dates this period - there has been a chateau on its crag since the 10th century. And the river it looks down on is the Vienne, a tributary of the Loire, rather than the Loire itself. But it holds a crucial place in French history. It was here in 1429 that Joan Of Arc met Charles VII - an encounter which gave the monarch new impetus in his ultimately successful bid to liberate his kingdom from English rule.
盧瓦爾河谷是閃閃發光的寶藏之地，那里到處是美麗的城堡和高聳入云的塔樓——這些都是15世紀和16世紀聚居在那里的法國王室家族留下來的遺產。當時法國貴族都將自己的府邸建在國王宮殿附近。無可否認，希儂城堡建造的日期更早，早在10世紀就有了這座懸崖上的城堡。城堡俯瞰著維埃納河，而非盧瓦爾河，維埃納河是盧瓦爾河的支流。不過，希儂城堡在法國歷史上占據著舉足輕重的地位。這座城堡見證了1429年圣女貞德和查理七世的會面，這次會面讓查理七世萌發了新動力，讓他最終得以成功讓法國脫離英國的統治。
Chateau de Saumur (France)
索米爾城堡（法國）
An image of symmetrical fairytale perfection, its towers leaping into the sky, its grand entrance accessed via drawbridge, the castle at Saumur ticks all the boxes required to be a spectacular Loire chateau - not least because it gazes out across the river in question (and its confluence with the Thouet). Tenth century in origin, though freshened and finessed in subsequent centuries, it has played host to a few beasts during its millennium of existence - it was converted into a state prison once Napoleon Bonaparte had seized the French reins. Happily, it is now restored to full splendour, staring imperiously at its surroundings.
童話般完美的對稱外觀，直沖云霄的高塔，雄偉的吊橋入口，索米爾的這座城堡具備了成為一座壯麗盧瓦爾河谷城堡的全部條件——不只是因為它就在盧瓦爾河邊（而且位于盧瓦爾河和圖埃河之間的交匯處）。這座始建于10世紀的古堡盡管在后來的歲月中歷經翻新和打理，在長達千年的歷史中也曾招待過幾個禽獸之人——在拿破侖.波拿巴執掌法國大權后曾將索米爾城堡改造為國家監獄。幸運的是，現在這座古堡已經回復到全盛狀態，傲視著周圍的一切。
Kronborg Castle (Denmark)
克倫堡宮（丹麥）
Pitched on the very eastern edge of Denmark in the town of Helsingor - so close to the edge, in fact, that Sweden is barely a stone’s-throw distant across the Oresund strait - Kronborg is very much a castle for princes and princesses. Particularly princes. A squat brick bastion, founded in the 1420s but converted into a Renaissance masterpiece by the Danish king Frederick II between 1574 and 1585, it was - and is - the setting for William Shakespeare’s tour de force Hamlet. Every summer, actors stride around its cavernous interior playing the troubled lead and his doomed love interest Ophelia as part of the Hamletscenen festival. Never does the Bard have a greater auditorium.
克倫堡宮坐落在丹麥赫耳辛格市的最東邊，事實上，克倫堡宮離瑞典也就一箭之遙，中間隔著厄勒海峽。這是一座屬于王子和公主的城堡，尤其是王子。這座敦實的城堡用磚石砌成，于15世紀20年代興建，后來在1574年至1585年間被丹麥國王腓特烈二世改造成文藝復興風格的杰出宮殿?？藗惐m在過去和現在都是莎士比亞代表作《哈姆雷特》的巡演之地。每年夏天，都會有演員在城堡內扮演苦惱的男主人公哈姆雷特和他的苦命戀人奧菲利亞，作為哈姆雷特文化節的一部分。莎士比亞再也找不到比這更好的戲劇大廳了。