With this revised and extended new edition of the richly illustrated volume Idyllic Splendour
of 2017 we invite you to dip into the endless variety of stately homes and parks between Lake
Constance and the Baltic Sea. With more than 15 000 castles mansions and palaces to choose
from the selection presented here is necessarily incomplete. But each example is an ambassador
for the many other jewels numbered among Germany's great houses and estates. From celestially
inspired Gothic to proud Renaissance from exultant Baroque to gardens of earthly paradise
this book presents a journey of discovery through epochs styles and thematic worlds. It is a
journey to enjoy and one that may well inspire you to personally explore one or other of these
worlds - the choice is overwhelming.
