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Munich and regions, Germany
see also:
introduction
- city in southern Germany which gives good access to Salzburg and Bavaria
Bavaria
- Landshuter Hochzeit 1475
- medieval Bavarian landscape wedding festival on 4 weekends of 30th June to 23rd July 2017
- Sylvensteinstausee lovely S curve bridge but you will need to scramble up a steep slope through forest to get the view and need a torch for sunset 1)
- sunrise fog Geroldsee lake in Upper Bavaria 2)
- fog over lake at Hintersee 2k west of Ramsau in the Berchtesgaden area 3)
- Linderhof Palace - Ettal
- Neuschwanstein Castle
- Pilgrimage Church Maria Gern way up in the alps 4):
- for images see http://www.fotocommunity.de/photos/maria%20gern
Bamberg
St. Bartholomew’s Church - Berchtesgaden
Rothenburg ob der Tauber
Prague via Vienna
- Frankfurt, Germany to Munich via Nuremberg = 392km, 3h 42m
- Dachau is near Munich = 28km, 30 min from Munich
- the Romantic Road (Romantische Strasse) a beautiful 5 day 360km country drive usually starting in Fussen, 130km SW of Munich (can be started at Wurzburg if traveling from Frankfurt to Munich):
- Fussen: one of the oldest settlements on the north side of the Alps
- 1st 40km runs parallel with the jagged limestone peaks through hilly rural countryside
- monastery village of Rottenbuch
- historic Landsberg - worth an overnight stay and a night walk through the medieval city
- Augsburg - catch a free classical concert in the magnificent Golden Hall in Augsburg's city hall
- Harburg's castle
- Nordlingen
- Dinkelsbuhl
- Rothenburg ob der Tauber - home of a popular Christian museum
- road winds through Tauber Valley clad with vineyards
- Bad Mergentheim
- Wurzburg - a magnificent city, much destroyed in WWII but much has survived, palace of Residenz. the Alte Mainbrucke historic bridge, the dramatic fortress of Marienberg
- Munich to Salzburg = 145km, 1.5h
- Salzburg to Vienna = 295km, 2h 45m
- Vienna to Cesky Krumlov = 200km, 2h 55m
- Cesky Krumlov to Prague = 171km, 2h 11m