Germany has served as a massive source of inspiration for Disney’s "Golden Age" and modern films, primarily through the folklore of the Brothers Grimm. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Disney's first feature-length film, is rooted in German folklore and features architecture inspired by the Bavarian "half-timbered" style. Sleeping Beauty (1959) famously features "Neuschwanstein Castle" in Bavaria as the primary visual reference for its iconic castle, a design that eventually became the centerpiece of Disneyland in California. Cinderella (1950) is also heavily influenced by the Germanic aesthetic of the 17th century. In the modern era, Tangled (2010) draws its visual inspiration from the town of Quedlinburg and the island of Mont Saint-Michel, but the kingdom of Corona's architecture is a love letter to German medieval design. Even Pinocchio (1940), while technically set in Italy, was animated with a "Rothenburg ob der Tauber" Germanic visual style because the illustrators found the German village aesthetic more "fairy-tale-like." Germany's "Romantic Road" and its dense, mystical forests continue to be the architectural "blueprint" for how Disney visualizes the quintessential European fairy-tale world.