Architecture

The building weighs more than 360 thousand tons.

The cost of the 1250-square-meter house was huge.

The triumphal arch is 51 m high and 44.9 m wide.

The king never intended to open the palace to the public. However, just six weeks after the king's death, Prince Regent Luitpold Wittelsbach ordered the palace to be opened to visitors for a fee.

The decorative rims of the clock faces are gilded.

Such a number of people at the same time, even in a large palace, without adequate sanitary facilities, often resulted in an unpleasant smell in the living rooms.

After the Teatro Regio Ducale caught fire, Giuseppe Piermarini was commissioned to design two new theaters in the area surrounding the Royal Palace.

While going up the elevator on the snowstorm, an optical illusion makes the snowflakes fall upwards.

The Royal Tombs compose a great complex of over a dozen of large tombs that may have been built for the rulers.

The Teutonic Order built the castle in several stages, from 1278 to 1457.