Germany - Central Germany (PDF Chapter) Lonely Planet

Central Germany has many facets. Very much a cultural heartland, it's also home to the bucolic Thuringian Forest, picturesque riverside vineyards of the Saale-Unstrut region and the Harz Mountains, brimming with spa towns, excellent cross-country skiing and hiking trails.

Germany - Central Germany (PDF Chapter) Lonely Planet

spend an hour chasing the water as it cascades down the slope from Kassel's towering Herkules statue
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study the origins of modernist architecture by touring Dessau's Bauhaus gems
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traverse Heights Hike to the top of the Brocken and soak up the kitsch mythology of the Harz region
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Coverage includes: Fairy-Tale Road, Hanau & Steinau, Marburg, Fulda, Nationalpark Kellerwald-Edersee, Kassel, Göttingen, Bad Karlshafen, Bodenwerder, Hamelin, Erfurt, Weimar & Thuringia, Buchenwald, Gotha, Mühlhausen & around, Kyffhäuser Mountains, Thuringian Forest & the Saale Valley, Eisenach, Schmalkalden, Saalfeld, Jena, Saale-Unstrut Region, Naumburg, Freyburg, Harz Mountains, Goslar, Bad Harzburg, Wernigerode, Schierke, Brocken & Torfhaus, Quedlinburg, Gernrode, Thale, Mittelbau Dora, Lutherstadt Wittenberg & Saxony-Anhalt, Dessau-Rosslau, Gartenreich Dessau-Wörlitz, Magdeburg, Halle and Lutherstadt Eisleben.