Top Stops Along the 460 km Romantic Road
- Würzburg: UNESCO Baroque Residenz Palace, Alte Mainbrücke wine bridge, and Marienberg Fortress.
- Rothenburg ob der Tauber: Intact 14th-century town walls, Plönlein half-timbered corner, and evening Night Watchman tour.
- Dinkelsbühl & Nördlingen: Unspoiled medieval fortified towns—Nördlingen sits entirely inside a 15-million-year-old meteorite crater with a 100% walkable circular wall.
- Augsburg: Renaissance merchant palaces and the Fuggerei (1521, world's oldest social housing complex).
- Steingaden (Wieskirche) & Füssen / Hohenschwangau: UNESCO Rococo pilgrimage church and Neuschwanstein Castle against the Allgäu Alps.