The Fairy Tale Forest (Sprookjesbos in Dutch) is a 15-acre (61,000 m2) wooded section of the amusement park Efteling in the Netherlands, where a number of well-known fairy tales and fairy tale figures are depicted by animated statues and buildings. Most of the figures are inspired by the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, and Charles Perrault.
Read more about Fairy Tale Forest: The Paper Gobblers, Other Fairy Tale Forests
Famous quotes containing the words fairy tale, fairy, tale and/or forest:
“And in their fairy tales
The warty giant and witch
Get sealed in doorless jails
And the match-girl strikes it rich.”
—Anthony Hecht (b. 1923)
“We went to Ranelagh. It is a charming place; and the brilliancy of the lights, on my first entrance, made me almost think I was in some enchanted castle or fairy palace, for all looked like magic to me.”
—Frances Burney (1752–1840)
“—I tell the tale that I heard told.
Mithridates, he died old.”
—A.E. (Alfred Edward)
“They say he is already in the forest of Arden, and a many
merry men with him; and there they live like the old Robin
Hood of England.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)