April, 1
2002
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Franconia's
wealth is its variety „Whoever wants to
enjoy Germany's most secret virgin attractions must go to Franconia“.
This poetic declaration of love was written by the poet and
narrator Karl Leberecht Immermann more than 150 years ago. No one has since
been able to describe this holiday landscape better than him:
"Franconia is like a magic cupboard; new drawers keep opening to reveal
colourful sparkling gems, and it never ends".
Franconia is the holiday region in Northern Bavaria and consists of 15 tourist
landscapes of quite different charac-ter on a total area of 30,000 square
kilometres. Whether Fichtelgebirge or Altmühltal, Frankenwald or the
Franco-nian Lake District, Rhön or the Franconian Wine Country, Hassberge or
Steigerwald, Franconian Switzerland or The Nuremberg Region, Upper Main Valley
- the Coburg countryside or Frankenalb, Spessart - Main - Odenwald, Lovely
Taubertal or last but not least „Romantic Franco-nia“, the countryside on the
Romantic Road - each of the Franconian holiday regions has its very own
unmistakable charm.
From a purely geographical viewpoint, Franconia forms the centre of Europe,........ |