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AichachSmall 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.
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.
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.
Small Upper Franconian town beneath the Giechburg castle ruins, surrounded by the rolling hills of Franconian Switzerland and remarkably home to five working breweries.
Quiet Franconian village near Coburg with a compact 16th-century castle that served as an administrative centre, set in gently rolling agricultural landscape.
Market stalls fill Aichach's medieval square beneath the towers of Wittelsbach family origins.
The baroque Schloss Leitheim sits on terraced gardens above the Donau-Ries valley floor.
Castle ruins crown the limestone rocks rising from Franconian Switzerland's forested valleys around Kirchahorn.
Jurassic hills above Scheßlitz hold pilgrimage chapels within walking distance of Bamberg's spires.
