Die Romantische Straße

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The Romantic Road
From Würzburg to Füssen
Germany’s best known and most popular
tourist route
The Romantic Road
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Germany’s oldest tourist route
First documentary mention in 1900 as
“Germany’s leading tourist route”
After the 2nd World War, in January 1950,
the route was (re-)launched under the name
Romantic Road
June 1950 – opening of the Romantic Road
‘Europabus’ route
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The Romantic Road
• Initial aim: to present a new and
positive image of Germany
around the world
• More than five million
overnight stays and 24 million
day trippers per year
• Is a registered trademark
• The partners are the 28 towns
and cities from Würzburg
Füssen
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The Romantic Road
• The corporate objective is to promote tourism
in the individual towns and cities
• Focal point of the marketing activities: urban
tourisms
• The portfolio was supplemented by the subjects of
nature and countryside with the founding of a
long-distance cycle route in 1988 and a longdistance hiking route in 2006
• All three routes are independently signposted
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Travel variations
• By car (403 km)
(Signs in brown, in accordance
with official regulations)
• By Romantic Road
‘Europabus’ (620 km)
(Romantic Road coach from /
to Frankfurt & Munich)
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Travel variations
• Long-distance cycle route D9 (485 km)
(Signs in green with the bicycle symbol,
part of the pan-German ADFC network
of cycle routes with the D9 logo, plus
‘Bayernnetz’ logo for cyclists in Bavaria,
signs pointing in the direction of Füssen
and Würzburg)
• Long-distance hiking route (500 km)
(Signs with blue Romantic Road logo
and direction arrow)
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Romantic Road 'Europabus'
• Has been linking the towns and
cities of the Romantic Road with
the international gateways of
Frankfurt and Munich since 1950
• Opened to compensate for the
lack of a continuous railway line
• Runs regularly in both directions
once a day from April to October
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Romantic Road 'Europabus'
• The journey with the ‘Europabus’ can be interrupted as often as required (‘Hop on – Hop off’)
• Over 90 % of passengers are international guests
• Can be booked as an arrangement including
overnight accommodation and a sight-seeing
programme
• Bookable online (www.romanticroadcoach.de )
• Transports luggage and bicycles
• Active travellers can cycle back to the starting
point or parts of the route
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Romantic Road long-distance cycle
route (D9)
• Covering a distance of 485
km, the long-distance cycle
route runs parallel to the
Romantic Road on quiet
– secondary roads,
– local roads,
– field and forest tracks
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Long-distance hiking route
• Opened in 2006
• The route does not follow
trunk roads but field and
forest tracks and quiet country
roads. In towns and cities, the
route takes footpaths and
always runs through the town
centre
• Corporate objective  a more
intensive experience of the
attractions than from behind
closed car windows
Long-distance hiking route
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Additional guests
Repeat visitors – rediscovering familiar sights
Almost all of the route is ideal for beginners
Generally runs on tracks that are easily walkable
and broad; rarely on narrow hiking trails
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Long-distance hiking route
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Length: 500 km
Ascent: 3066 m
Descent: 2438 m
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500 km
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Hiking without luggage
• The easiest way to explore the Romantic Road
 Hiking tours for individualists
• All tours and sections are arranged in
accordance with the customer’s personal
requirements
• Tours guaranteed to take place
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Hiking without luggage
Includes ...
• The journey by the Romantic Road ‘Europabus’
• Luggage transport from hotel to hotel,
• Accommodation in good middle-class hotels in
the towns / sections of the route required,
• Overnight accommodation with breakfast and a
telephone number for emergency assistance
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Prices
• Price per person in a double room:
• 3-day tour with 2 nights' accommodation
from € 281.00
• 5-day tour with 4 nights' accommodation
from € 479.00
• 7-day tour with 6 nights' accommodation
from € 677.00
• 20 % commission for resellers
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Literature
HIKELINE
Long-distance hiking route
Romantic Road 1
Würzburg-Donauwörth
TOUR
PLANNER
HIKELINE
Long-distance hiking
route Romantic Road 2
Donauwörth - Füssen
BICYCLE TOUR
GUIDE
(German)
PICTURE
GUIDE
Literature
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HIKING
GUIDE
English
CYCLE TOUR
GUIDE
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COOKERY BOOK
Romantic Road
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Information package
• Route map (in 11 other languages)
Scale 1:500.000
Road map, brief details of all towns and
villages with contact addresses
• Accommodation directory
Hotels, inns, guest houses, holiday apartments,
camping sites, youth hostels, caravan sites
• Bicycle flyer (trilingual, German/English/Italian)
Long-distance cycle route D9 – maps and offers for
cyclists covering the entire region and along the route
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Information package
• Hiking flyer
Brief overview of the long-distance hiking route
and packages for individualists
“Hiking without luggage”
• Short breaks
Selected hotels, regional specialities,
individual city tours, self-drive tours
• Events
Open-air theatres, historical festival plays,
concerts, culinary festivals
• Romantic Road 'Europabus'
Scheduled services and bicycle transport,
timetable
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The long-distance hiking route in
detail
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From the River Main to the River Tauber:
Würzburg – Tauberbischofsheim : 37.6 km
Stage 1:
Würzburg
– Kist
10.4 km
Stage 2:
Kist –
Tauberbis
chofsheim
27.2 km
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The Tauber Valley: Tauberbischofsheim –
Lauda Königshofen – Bad Mergentheim –
Weikersheim : 37.7 km
Stage 3:
Tauberbischofsheim
Bad
Mergentheim
24.5 km
Stage 4:
Bad
Mergentheim
Weikersheim
13.2 km
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The Tauber Valley: Weikersheim Röttingen - Creglingen - Rothenburg ob der
Tauber: 37.3 km
Stage 5:
Weikersheim –
Creglingen
16.8 km
Stage 6:
Creglingen
–
Rothenburg
o.d.T
20.5 km
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The Franconian Heights: Rothenburg ob
der Tauber - Schillingsfürst Feuchtwangen : 34.9 km
Stage 7:
Rothenburg o.d.T.
Schillingsfürst
15.3 km
Stage 8:
Schillingsfürst Feuchtwan
gen
19.6 km
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The Franconian Heights: Feuchtwangen Dinkelsbühl – Wallerstein : 36.2 km
Stage 10:
Feuchtwangen Dinkelsbühl
– Dinkelsbühl – Raustetten
13.5 km
22.7 km
Stage 9:
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From the Ries to the River Danube :
Wallerstein – Nördlingen – Harburg:
48.3 km
Stage 11:
Stage 12:
Raustetten –
Nördlingen –
Nördlingen
Mönchsdeggingen
18.2 km
18.8 km
Stage 13:
Mönchsdeggingen-Harburg
11.3 km
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From the Ries to the River Danube :
Stage 14:
Harburg –
Donauwörth
15.3 km
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The Lech Valley :
Donauwörth - Augsburg : 68.2 km
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Stage 15:
Donauwörth – Rain
14.5 km
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Stage 17:
Kloster Holzen –
Biberbach
13.6 km
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Stage 16:
Rain – Kloster
Holzen
18.1km
Stage 18:
Biberbach –
Augsburg
22.0 km
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The Lech Valley: Augsburg - Friedberg
- Landsberg am Lech : 55.6 km
Stage 19:
Stage 20:
Augsburg –
Friedberg –
Friedberg
Prittriching
11.5 km
22.0 km
Stage 21:
Prittriching Landsberg am Lech
22.1 km
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The Lech Valley : Landsberg am Lech Hohenfurch - Schongau – Peiting : 40.3 km
Stage 22:
Landsberg
am Lech –
Epfach
20.7 km
Stage 23:
Epfach –
Peiting
19.6 km
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The foothills of the Alps:
Peiting - Rottenbuch - Wildsteig Steingaden – Halblech : 31.6 km
Stage 24:
Peiting –
Wildsteig
14.7 km
Stage 25:
Wildsteig
Halblech
16.9 km
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The foothills of the Alps:
Stage 26:
Halblech Schwangau Füssen
18.3 km
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Thank you very much
for your attention!