97 · Germany
Neuschwanstein Castle
A nineteenth-century dream of the Middle Ages in the Bavarian foothills.
Country guide
Germany
5 places across the five collections. Start with what draws you here, then build a journey that gives each place enough time.
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Thomas Wolf, www.foto-tw.de · CC BY-SA 3.0 deFind your way through Germany.
The country guide gathers The Original 100 and every alternative included elsewhere on the site. A shared regional wonder may appear in more than one country.
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Find the shape of your journey.
See how the 5 entries are distributed, then choose a cluster that suits the journey you want. Numbers on this map refer to the list alongside it.
Representative points, including broad regions and shared-border entries. A pin is not a visitor entrance or evidence of a direct travel connection.
- Neuschwanstein Castle
The Original 100 · A nineteenth-century dream of the Middle Ages in the Bavarian foothills.
- Bamberg
The Wider World · A river town with distinct historic districts rewards attention to the relationship between water, civic life and ecclesiastical power.
- Regensburg
The Wider World · A historic Danube city preserves an unusually rich combination of medieval streets, merchant buildings and monumental architecture.
- Lübeck
The Wider World · Brick churches, merchants' houses and waterways reveal the architecture and commercial world of a Hanseatic city.
- Trier
The Wider World · Major Roman remains and later religious buildings allow a city to be read through a long sequence of changing uses.
The Original 100
1–100 · 1 place in this country
The Wider World
401–500 · 4 places in this country
470 · Germany
Regensburg
A historic Danube city preserves an unusually rich combination of medieval streets, merchant buildings and monumental architecture.
Turn the collection into a journey.
Begin with an anchor place and its suggested base. Compare the guides’ seasonal notes and allow separately for time spent travelling. A collection of places in one country is not automatically a sensible route, particularly where islands, mountains or remote regions are involved.
Use the travel workbench to record your chosen overnight stops and the transport information you have checked. It keeps unresearched connections visible and produces a day-by-day outline you can print or export.
For international travel, check current entry requirements, regional advice and the operating details of the actual transport and visitor authorities. Country and territory labels here organise the guides; broad shared landscapes do not imply unrestricted border crossings.