Castle Facts

• Cinderella Castle is 189 feet tall and is made out of fiberglass.
• Construction of the castle began in late 1969.
• Herbert Ryman began with a charcoal sketch, which he developed into a painting. He used several French castles for his inspiration, among them Chambord, Usse, and Chenonceau. Inspiration also came from the classic Walt Disney animated feature Cinderella.
• It took 18 months to build the castle.
• Six hundred tons of steel were used in the framework.
• Imagineers sculpted exterior and interior walls to resemble solid granite.
• There are 10 towering spires on the castle.
• Contrary to myth, the castle cannot be, nor has it ever been, dismantled in the event of a hurricane.
• Finishing touches to the castle included Cinderella's mice friends carved into decorative columns and the Disney family crest in stone above the breezeways.
• What's inside the castle? A shop selling glass and crystal ornaments and a restaurant: Cinderella's Royal Table (formerly King Stefan's Banquet Hall).
• A series of mosaic tile murals adorn the walls in the entry corridor. The murals, designed by imagineer Dorothea Redmond and executed by mosaicist Hanns-Joachim Scharff, tell the story of Cinderella in five 15-by-10-foot panels.
• The bricks in cinderella castle, which are not real, get smaller at the top section to make the castle look bigger