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498  GERM AN Y , A USTRIA , AND SWITZERLAND

Exploring Germany
Visitors in search of classical German landscapes flock to the Black DENMARK Gothenburg, St Petersburg,
Ventspils
Klaipeda, Oslo
Rønne,
Forest, the Rhine Valley, and the Bavarian Alps. The attractive Trelleborg, Klaipeda
Helsinki
German countryside is easily accessed thanks to the best road Baltic Sea
network in Europe. Of the cities, the most popular destinations A7 Sassnitz
are the capital Berlin, a vibrant metropolis in a state of Puttgarden
transition since reunification in 1990, and Munich, the Kiel 105 Stralsund
historic former capital of the Kingdom of Bavaria. East Rostock A20
Germany, now open for tourism, has many attractions A23 Lübeck
to draw visitors – particularly the city of Dresden, A19 96
rebuilt after World War II. Bremerhaven Schwerin
A24
A31 A27 Hamburg
Sights at a Glance A28 A29 Koszalin
1 Berlin pp500–513 A1
2 Dresden Groningen Ems Bremen Oder
3 Leipzig A7 A24 A11
4 Weimar
5 Bayreuth Weser Elbe 189 BERLIN POLAND
6 Bamberg THE A1 Hanover Potsdam A12
7 Würzburg NETHERLANDS (Hannover) A2 A2 Poznan
A30
8 Rothenburg ob der Tauber Amsterdam Osnabrück Braunschweig A13
9 Nuremberg A31 Bielefeld Magdeburg A9
0 Munich pp518–25 Münster A2
q Passau A3 G E R M A N Y Cottbus A15 Wroclaw
w Neuschwanstein A57 Essen Dortmund A14
e Lake Constance Rotterdam Duisburg A44 A7 Halle A13
r Freiburg im Breisgau A1 Kassel Leipzig A4
A14
t Black Forest Düsseldorf Meissen Dresden
y Stuttgart Brussels A46 A61 A45 A4 Erfurt
u Heidelberg A4 Cologne (Köln)
i Trier Aachen Weimar Chemnitz A17
o Mosel Valley Bonn A5 Prague
p Mainz BELGIUM Maria A3 4 A72
a Rhine Valley Laach Koblenz A71 A73 A9
s Koblenz Rhine Frankfurt am Main CZECH REPUBLIC
d Frankfurt am Main Mosel Valley Wiesbaden
f Bonn Valley A61 A3 A70 Bamberg Bayreuth
g Cologne pp533–5 LUXEMBOURG Trier Mainz Würzburg
h Münster Prague
j Hanover A6 Rothenburg ob
der Tauber
k Bremen Saarbrücken Mannheim Neckar Nuremberg
(Nürnberg)
l Hamburg Heidelberg A3
z Lübeck Rhein A9
Paris
FRANCE Regensburg
Karlsruhe Stuttgart
Donau A92 Passau
A8
Black Forest Tübingen Ulm Augsburg
(Schwarzwald) A81
12
A7 Linz
A96 Munich (München)
Freiburg im A95 A8 Salzburg
Breisgau A8
Dijon Konstanz
Neuschwanstein
Lake Constance Garmisch
Basel
(Bodensee)
SWITZERLAND Innsbruck AUSTRIA
Wooded landscape of the Black Forest region
For hotels and restaurants see pp546–8 and pp549–51
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