The castle towers majestically over Heidelberg’s old town center and the River Neckar. Numerous artists, including writers like Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Mark Twain, were so taken with Heidelberg Castle that they raved about the romantic castle ruin in their writings.
A highlight of the castle tour is the Great Heidelberg Tun, an extremely large wine casket in the royal wine cellar. An impressive 220,000 liters can fit inside it, overseen by a wooden statue of the dwarf Perkeo… (View original article)