Acknowledged travel sceneries ensure for a cosy feeling
A region with such richness in sights, possible leisure activities and interesting events provide the ideal mixture for perfect holidays. If you want to visit nice small towns or little villages with baroque churches and old half-timbered houses, you should take one of the Franconian holiday's streets: Romantic street, Beer street and Castle street - all offer various tours to discover.
Whether Spruce Mountains (Fichtelgebirge) or Franconia Forest (Frankenwald), Spessart or Rhön, Franconian Switzerland or the charming Tauber valley - 15 Franconian holiday areas offer pure rest and relaxation.
Spruce Mountains is an ancient low mountain range, which millions of years ago have been pushed by enormous natural forces into the shape of a horseshoe. It is actually quite incredible that it originally used to be higher than the today Alps. Today, the area with its moors, rocks and caves is full of mystery and tales. Hikers, cyclists and stroller will be excited by this most attractive Bavarian scenery.
The Romantic street leads to towns full of nice half-timbered houses. Wonderful townscapes invite to stay and take tours for discovering the surrounding. Town walls with towers, winding alleys with idyllic facades of half-timbered houses and old town gates testify to a glorious history. Visit the villages Dinkelsbühl, Feuchtwangen and Rothenburg and be taken back in time to times of Karl the Great, Walther von der Vogelweide and the German order of knights.
TIP: Discover in Ansbach Franconian rococo, with playful buildings, facades and margrave’s castle, which gives the town a cheerful appearance.
In Central Franconia lies the so-called Franconian sea area which has a water surface area of about 2,000 hectares when reservoirs are taken into account. The area comprises the great and small Brombach Lakes with adjoining Igelsbach Lake, Roth Lake and Altmühl Lake. This area is quite untouched and is characterized by mixed forest, fields and meadows.
Concerts of full sound, happy wine or beer festivals and traditional events – all of them provide a great diversity of festivals all around the year. High-class concerts on unusual stages let the heart of its audience beat faster. Culinary experiences will be pleasant as well.
The biggest towns in the Franconia region are Nuremberg (495.121 E.), Wurzburg (124.577 E.), Fürth (118.358 E.), Erlangen (105.412 E.), Bayreuth (71.482 E.), Bamberg (70.863 E.), Aschaffenburg (67.681 E.), Schweinfurt (52.098 E.), Hof, Coburg and Ansbach.
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