Posts tagged where is Corona
Never leave the kingdom
Historical images of four places that could have been a real-world Corona: Lindau, Wolgast, Stockholm, and Mont St. Michel.
Island village? Ringed by mountains? Timber-framed houses? Onion-domed towers? Fountain for red-headed girls to braid Rapunzel’s hair? Yep, Lindau, Germany, looks a whole lot like a real-world Corona.
The closest we will ever get to knowing what it would feel like to wander through the streets of the Corona island-village. Views from Mont St. Michel, France.
Mont St. Michel in Normandy, France, inspired our castle in “Tangled.” It sits out in the bay surrounded by water and feels so very fairy tale-like. When I visited it I knew this has to be the kingdom that Rapunzel will someday be Queen of. -GLEN KEANE
This is Ralswiek Castle on the German island of Rügen in the Baltic Sea. As you know, I think “Tangled” probably takes place on the Baltic Sea coast, and I thought this castle had some of the same feel of the Corona castle, particularly from the roof down. It’s French Renaissance style, and I see the Corona castle as a French Renaissance-style castle topped with Eastern European-style onion domes. I also got a kick out the sunburst sundial on the side and the forested grounds – very Corona-esque.
This is a companion map to my story, “The House of Korona.” It shows all the locations mentioned in the story, including the Kingdom. The full map shows the Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania. The inset shows a more detailed view of Gdansk Bay and the Kingdom. The date of the map is 1739.
The German island of Mainau in Lake Constance (Bodensee) - another potential setting for a real-world Kingdom of Corona, though I lean toward the nearby island of Lindau.
An interesting historical image of Lindau, Germany, from 1750 - just about the time that “Tangled” would have taken place. If you want to know what a real-world Corona would have looked like, this is it.
An image of Lindau, Germany, on Lake Constance (der Bodensee) from 1588.
I love historical art, and I couldn’t help comparing this image of Lindau, Germany, with the Corona bridge.
