Neuschwanstein Castle, Hohenschwangau, Germany. Here is a brief explanation of the castle and its background. See Wikipedia: Neuschwanstein Castle.
Neuschwanstein Castle (German: Schloss Neuschwanstein, pronounced [ˈʃlɔs nɔʏˈʃvaːnʃtaɪn], Southern Bavarian: Schloss Neischwanstoa) is a 19th-century historicist palace on a rugged hill above the village of Hohenschwangau near Füssen in southwest Bavaria, Germany. The palace was commissioned by King Ludwig II of Bavaria as a retreat and in honour of Richard Wagner. Ludwig chose to pay for the palace out of his personal fortune and by means of extensive borrowing, rather than Bavarian public funds. Construction began in 1869, but was never fully completed.
The castle was intended as a private residence for the King, until he died in 1886. It was open to the public shortly after his death. Since then more than 61 million people have visited Neuschwanstein Castle. More than 1.3 million people visit annually, with as many as 6,000 per day in the summer
I think that this, and other hilltop castles in Germany and other places are the basis for the idealization of castles by Disney and other movie producers. Obviously from the description, this was not a castle with a moat and all the other military accuments that go along with the real purpose for castles.
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