Centred on a soaring fairy-tale castle, the Magic Kingdom was the first of the theme parks to open at Walt Disney World in Florida. It remains the most visited theme park anywhere in the world. The park opened in 1971 as the heart of the new resort, modelled on the original Disneyland in California but built on a far larger scale. Its opening transformed the quiet countryside near Orlando. At its centre stands Cinderella Castle, a tall, slender palace of pale stone and blue spires that serves .....

Spread across an area the size of a small city, the Walt Disney World Resort is one of the most visited holiday destinations on earth. It draws tens of millions of visitors each year to its parks, hotels and entertainment. The resort opened in 1971 with a single theme park, and has grown steadily ever since into a vast world of its own. It covers tens of square kilometres of central Florida near the city of Orlando. Today it is made up of four large theme parks, two water parks, dozens of hote.....