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                                                highly unusual cathedral
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    Würzburg                                    with a Romanesque core
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                   A3
                                                bornkapelle by Balthasar
                                / ·             Neumann.
                                 A73
          / ·                   # Erlangen      54 p502
          A7
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                                        A9
   Weikersheim               Fürth  \ #         The Drive » The 37km
                                                between Würzburg and the next
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   #                              Nuremberg     stop, Tauberbischofsheim, is
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             Rothenburg                         best tackled in the following
             ob der Tauber
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      0 ¸  # #     Ansbach  Schwabach           way: from the centre of
                                                Würzburg take the B19 south
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      L1040
             / ·     \ #  / ·                   until it joins the A3 motorway;
              A7
                         E50
                                     / ·        follow this until the junction with
                                      E45
                                                the B81, which goes all the way   GERMANY 35 THE ROMANTIc ROAD
                    Altmuhl
                                                to Tauberbischofsheim.
                          # Gunzenhausen
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               # Dinkelsbühl
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               5
                         Weissenburg  # \
                                   Eichstätt &
                 / ·               the Altmühltal  2 Tauberbischofsheim
                  B25
                                                The main town of the
                                   Nature Park
                    Nördlingen  H     #         pretty Tauber Valley, this
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                   \ #                          small settlement has a
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         # Aalen                p498            picturesque marketplace
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                   Harburg #    Donau           dominated by a neo-
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                          #                     Gothic town hall and
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                           \ 8
                  Donauwörth
        Donau
                                                lined with typical half-
                      Donau  / ·                timbered houses. Follow
                                                the remains of the
                             B2
                                                medieval town walls
                  / ·          Lech
                   A8
   Ulm  # \            Augsburg 9 ] #
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                                                     LINK
                                                     YOUR
                               Verlorener Bach  {  German Fairy Tale
         / ·                                         TRIP
          A7
                             / ·
                             B17
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                                                 ^
                                                  Road
                      / ·          Ammersee   Do one of the trips in
                      A96
                              # Landsberg
                              10
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            # \               #               reverse: the start of the
             Memmingen          am Lech       Grimm Brothers' Fairy Tale
 # \                 Kaufbeuren  / ·  Wurmsee  Road is about an hour east
                              B17
                        # \         Weilheim
       #Leutkirch /·           11 # #  Schongau  from Würzburg.
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               A7
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    / ·           Marktoberdorf               y  \ #  Romantic Rhine
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     A96
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                               \ 12
          Kempten # \          # Wieskirche       Würzburg is two
                            / ·     Staffelsee
                            B17
                      Bannwaldsee      / ·    hours (154km) from Mainz,
                                        A95
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               Mittlerer                      at the end of this castle-
          Alpsee  Inselsee  Füssen #
                          13
                           #     # \  Garmisch-  lined riverside jaunt.
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                   Neuschwanstein &  Partenkirchen
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                   Hohenschwangau  Zugspitze
      # \             Castles  (2963m) Mittenwald  \ #
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