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The Sauerland is the first region to be crowned a “Quality Hiking Region” and with the Sauerland Hiking Villages or the Sauerland-Höhenflug it offers first-class hiking routes with wonderful panoramic views. To be accurate, the total of 2,711 mountains over 400 m high provide a unique backdrop.

Historic towns such as Hameln or Höxter with their half-timbered houses and buildings from the Weser Renaissance style take visitors back to a different time. Fragrant tours or culinary guided tours speak equally to all senses. The present-day Corvey Castle and the UNESCO world Heritage Site in Höxter was a free estate Benedictine abbey up to 1792 and a dominant cultural centre with its valuable library in the Middle Ages.

The Brocken at 1,141 m high is without a doubt the most impressive natural monument in the Harz mountain range. Northern Germany’s highest mountain offers a fantastic view of the countryside and on good days, you can see as far as Thüringan, the Weser mountains, the Rothaar Mountains or the Rhön Mountains. The Brocken is also known for its enchanted walking paths.

The Kellerwald-Edersee UNESCO World Heritage Site is located in the Waldecker Land region. The expansive beech forests are no longer managed, thus creating Europe’s “primitive forests of the future”. The largest largest coherent complex of Luzulo-Fagetum beech grove in Central Europe is protected over an area of 6,000 hectares and you can experience it first hand on the Kellerwaldsteig or the Urwaldsteig Edersee hiking paths.

The Münsterland region is Germany’s horse country and offers the Münsterland riding trail consisting of 1,000 km of signposted bridleways. On this trail you can explore the region’s soft landscape by saddle. The 100 Castles Route – the pinnacle of German cycling tracks - combines culture with an active holiday.

You can experience the history of the Ore Mountains as a flourishing mining region in over 20 visitors’ mines. The Ore Mountains are world-famous for their wide variety of traditional crafts with fabrics such as embroidery, felting, weaving, lace-making and ornamental trimmings as well as crafts with wood.

This little corner of the earth is also known as the Tuscany of the North, and rightly so. After all, a lust for life, unique medieval cultural assets and excellent wines are all at home here in the birthplace of German royalty. The sun shines brightly in the region, which is still an inside tip.

As a hiker on the Rennsteig hiking trail, as a visitor to the famous Wartburg Castle near Eisenach, or as a sports fan at an exciting event (biathlon, bob, cross-country or Nordic combined) in the winter sports complex at Oberhof: the Thüringian Forest has a wide variety of activities on offer to suit every interest and taste! You can follow the footsteps of Goethe and Schiller in Weimar and Jena.

Lake Constance in the four-country border region stands for unadulterated joie de vivre. The fascinating Alpine panorama in the background offers a magnificent backdrop to all types of activities: enjoyable bathing, water sports or a relaxed boat trip over the blue expanse of Lake Constance.

Lake Constance in the four-country border region stands for unadulterated joie de vivre. The fascinating Alpine panorama in the background offers a magnificent backdrop to all types of activities: enjoyable bathing, water sports or a relaxed boat trip over the blue expanse of Lake Constance.