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Extract from the Schwangau Travel Guides:
SCHWANGAU
, 3km northeast of Fssen, to which it's connected by a frequent bus service, combines the roles of a traditional agricultural community and health resort. Its name literally means "Swan Country", and the presence of a sizeable colony of these aloof birds has cast a spell on rulers of the area down the centuries. As the decoration of their fantasy castles testifies, the nineteenth-century Bavarian kings Maximilian II and his son Ludwig II were obsessed by the swan motif and the medieval Grail legends associated with it.
The only historical monument of note in Schwangau itself is the Baroque
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