It's a place where a school is, I think. And rather important, somehow, but I never quite heard why. Something about ivy.

Oh, but--yes, of course, we can't simply leave our poor princess like that, can we! Yes, well, they took her out to be burned at the stake, but it just so happened that they day they picked for it was also the very last day of her six years! And so they took her out and she took all her little shirts with her, which were all done save for one--it was missing the sleeve on one arm, since she hadn't had time to sew it on yet in all the commotion.

And so they took her out and tied her to the stake and just as they were about to put her to the torch, there in the sky came her six brothers as swans, swooping down toward them all! And she managed to get a hand free and as they came down, she threw a shirt over each of them, and lo and behold the magic worked and they all turned back into their human selves!

...Well, all except the youngest brother, who got the shirt that wasn't quite finished yet, and so he ended up still having a wing for one arm, instead.