Germany's fabled Neuschwanstein Castle, the turreted folly perched on a rock near the Alps, is to undergo interior renovations, the Bavarian government says.
It has set aside five million euros ($A7.31 million) for a program which is expected to focus on restoring the rooms of state.
"Neuschwanstein Castle is a flagship for Bavaria and Germany in the world," said Bavaria's state secretary of finance, Johannes Hintersberger, announcing the appropriation. About 1.5 million tourists visit Neuschwanstein annually.
King Ludwig II of Bavaria ordered the elaborate castle to be built in 1869, but he only lived there for a few months.
It had not been finished when he drowned in 1886, but was preserved by the Bavarian authorities, despite critics calling it a vast waste of money. Years later, Bavaria realised it owned a global tourist attraction out in the countryside near Schwangau.
This year is the 150th anniversary of Ludwig's accession to the throne, so a two-metre-high water-colour design for a throne by one of Ludwig II's court architects has been put on show in the castle.
Like much about the dreamy 19th-century castle, the throne was never completed.
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