Day trips from Munich
8 drives worth the detour
Nuremberg
Nuremberg carries more weight of history per square meter than almost anywhere in Germany.
See the routeBerchtesgaden
Berchtesgaden sits at the bottom of a geological accident — a bowl of alpine rock so steep and dramatic it feels like the landscape is hiding something.
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Passau is built on an impossibly narrow peninsula where three rivers converge — the Danube from the west, the Inn from the south, and the small dark Ilz from the north.
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The Bodensee sits at the junction of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, and its shores carry 4,000 years of history in an unusually dense stretch of land.
See the routeRothenburg ob der Tauber
Germany's most intact medieval walled town — come before 9am or stay overnight, and what you find underneath the tourism is 42 towers still standing, a Riemenschneider altarpiece, and the legend of a man who drank a gallon of wine to save his neighbours from an army.
See the routeBamberg
Bamberg is one of the best-kept secrets in Germany, which is extraordinary given that it has a UNESCO World Heritage old town, one of the finest Romanesque cathedrals in Europe, and a beer culture so unique it has no parallel anywhere else on earth.
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