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Schloss Balmoral - Artists' House

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Place of origin of Richard Wagner's "Parsifal

The mixture of villa and white knight's castle, built in 1868 as the country house of a Russian "landowner", was once used as a hotel. Even back then, artists and musicians came and went here; Richard Wagner, for example, completed his opera Parsifal here. Today, Balmoral Castle is an institution of the Rhineland-Palatinate Foundation for Culture, which serves as a place to live and work for visual arts scholarship holders from all over the world. Events and exhibitions are regularly organised here.

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Villenpromenade 11

56130 Bad Ems


Phone: (0049) 2603 94190

Fax: (0049) 2603 941916

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