In 1868, his visit to Versailles provided him with the  impulse to have plans made for a new Versailles.  Linderhof was not intended to be a structure for representation, but rather inspired by the Trianon of Versailles, a retreat in which the monarch could experience the dream past and present.

The numerous small buildings surrounding Linderhof originate from the same idea, embodiments of the king's imaginative faculty: in the midst of the solitude of the Graswang Valley, he sought while smoking a hookah in the "Moorish Kiosk"  to revive the fairytale world of the Arabian Nights.

In the golden skiff on the lake of the "Venus Grotto", he desired to feel the enchantment of Tannhaüser .

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