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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang — Film Location

18 December 1968
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang — Film Location

The fairy-tale silhouette of Neuschwanstein Castle stood in for Baron Bomburst’s castle in the kingdom of Vulgaria in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968). Ludwig II’s nineteenth-century folly in the Bavarian Alps, itself built as a stage-set fantasy of a medieval keep, was a natural fit for a film about a flying car and a child-catcher.

Filming location: quick answers

Which castle is Baron Bomburst's in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?

Neuschwanstein Castle in the Bavarian Alps — its fairy-tale silhouette stood in for Baron Bomburst's castle in the kingdom of Vulgaria in the 1968 film.

Is the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang castle real?

Yes — it is Neuschwanstein, Ludwig II's nineteenth-century folly, itself built as a stage-set fantasy of a medieval keep: a natural fit for a film about a flying car.

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