Slow travel-route door Germany
Je rijdt langs de kasteelgordel van Beieren — vanaf Aichachs middeleeuwse markt op de Wittelsbach-zetel noordwaarts naar Leitheims barokke Donau-Ries-schloss, dan Franconische Zwitserland bij Kirchahorn, de pelgrimsheuvels boven Scheßlitz bij Bamberg, en Ahorns Wasserschloss met gracht in Coburger land.
Duur
9 dagen
Stops
5
Beste tijd
Laat voorjaar tot vroeg najaar — open kasteeluren, lange wandeldagen

Aichach
Germany
Small Bavarian market town northeast of Augsburg, birthplace of the Wittelsbach dynasty and home to the ruins of the castle that launched one of Europe's most powerful royal houses.

Leitheim
Germany
Tiny Danube hamlet in Bavarian Swabia with a superb Baroque castle directly above the river, now a spa hotel on the Romantic Road and gateway to the Altmühl Nature Park.

Kirchahorn
Germany
Tiny Franconian village in a forested valley of Franconian Switzerland, home to Burg Rabenstein — a medieval castle hotel with a limestone cave, falconry and beer garden.

Scheßlitz
Germany
Small Upper Franconian town beneath the Giechburg castle ruins, surrounded by the rolling hills of Franconian Switzerland and remarkably home to five working breweries.

Ahorn
Germany
Quiet Franconian village near Coburg with a compact 16th-century castle that served as an administrative centre, set in gently rolling agricultural landscape.
Elke genummerde stop op volgorde verbonden langs de reis