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Bavaria is every bit the storybook fantasy you’ve seen in movies and has a wealth of fabulous countryside outside of it's beloved Munich. Visit Neuschwanstein Castle, the model for Walt Disney’s "Magic Kingdom", or one of the many Medieval walled towns lining the Nationalpark Bayerischer Wald (Bavarian Forest National Park) that influenced the infamous Brothers Grimm.
You can also drive through fields of wildflowers to one of Bavaria’s hip urban centers, home to a thriving arts and culture scene, or spend a day sampling wines in Würzburg or the Franconia wine region. If you’re traveling in winter, ski the Bavarian Alps and stop by a traditional hut to sample Schweinshaxe and Weißwurst (white sausage). No trip to Bavaria, however, would be complete without a visit to one of the area’s numerous beer gardens — just remember that beer garden season starts in mid April and runs through October. When you think of Bavaria you may think of Lederhosn and Dirndl donned by a traditional folk band, but the area also birthed cutting-edge creatives, from Klaus Nomi and Bertolt Brecht to filmmakers Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Werner Herzog. So get ready to be inspired.
Bavaria's culture hotspot, the International Mountain Film Festival, is set to open its doors October 15 - 19, 2025 by beautiful Lake Tegernsee.
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Ellen von Unwerth's HEIMAT, a photographic ode to her homeland, Bavaria, has the whole world talking, and we can sure see why
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With an immersive sense of place, their structures merge perfectly into their environments, creating buildings with soul, that seem intrinsically linked to nature.
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Medieval rooftops cradle a hidden spa. Goldene Rose in Dinkelsbühl, fuses heritage and wellness with a rooftop infinity pool, saunas and timeless timbered design.
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Where Roman grit collides with Bavarian beats: Dinkelsbühl’s medieval walls, design dens and raw festival energy make this historic town a must for Germany’s travel radar.
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We like the way in which partners Manfred Brennecke and Stefan Kohlmeier from Arc Architekten approach the business of architecture – bringing the client into the heart of the process and using it as their humble raison d’etre.
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A regal abode of rich heritage rethought for the creative set, founders, fashionistas and entrepreneurs who feel equally in residence in Bavaria's downtown beauty, Dinkelsbühl.
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Timber chalets in the Chiemgau Alps unite self-catering ease with Bavarian soul, sustainable craft and lake to peak adventure, set between Munich and Salzburg beside Chiemsee’s reeds, moorland and mountain light calm.
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A cinematic landscape of lakes and Alpine peaks, Chiemgau is Bavaria in perfect edit: deep heritage, intelligent design and nature’s calm balanced by ski runs, forest trails and reed-lined shores.
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Steps away from Lake Constance, this shoreside hideaway fuses historical elegance with modern, purist architecture and conscious design, cradled in nature, wildflowers and centuries-old pine trees.
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Raw architecture, rusticity and a gallery of textured heritage narrate this design hotel outpost from its façade of dandy red shutters to the tales of twisted loft rafters and atmospheric exposed history.
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One of Germany’s most southerly states is demarcated as Baden-Württemberg, bordering France, Switzerland and Austria over the glistening shores of Lake Constance, and within Germany it shimmies up to Bavaria, Hesse and Rhineland Palatinate.
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A beautiful narrative of restoration and design, this riverside perch of style sits in the heartland of historic Amberg, its aged facade plays host to a seductive remit of subtle design and crafted interiors overlooking the river Vils.
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Ostseebad Ahrenshoop, a municipality in the Vorpommern-Rügen district on the Fischland-Darß-Zingst peninsula, was formerly home to painters such as Paul Müller-Kaempff and Oskar Frenzel. Moved by the landscape, in 1889 they formed an artist colony that soon became popular among other leading painters of the era.
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Located on the banks of the Wörnitz River in Bavaria, one of Germany’s best-preserved cities where immaculate medieval buildings meet cobbled streets, cathedrals, churches and museums are clasped by old city walls.
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The Fischland-Darß peninsula is known as a place where thousands of migrating birds – cranes and geese – come to rest in their trek to southern, warmer regions.
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Affectionately known as the lake without a nation, freshwater Lake Constance, known as the Bodensee in German, was formed in the ice age by glaciers and is Europe's third largest lake.
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