Nicknamed “Millionendorf” — the village of a million people — by its own residents, Munich is Bavaria’s elegant capital, where tradition and innovation meet. Set along the Isar River and backed by the Alps, it blends historic icons like Marienplatz, the Frauenkirche and Nymphenburg Palace with modern highlights…
Known to locals and admirers as “Mainhattan,” Frankfurt-on-the-Main is unlike any other German city. It is a high-powered hub home to one of the world’s largest stock exchanges, the headquarters of the European Central Bank, and the stage for some of the planet’s most significant trade fairs. On…
Bamberg is a rare fusion of medieval and baroque architecture, stitched together with a distinctly Franconian character. Nearly 2,300 historic monuments dot the city — a density that earned it a place on the UNESCO World Heritage list. And remarkably, Bamberg was spared the destruction that devastated so…
I had a few ideas of what to expect when I first arrived in Bavaria back in November 2024, though I hadn’t done much research going in — somewhere in the back of my mind, I knew I’d be back. And I was, several times over, before eventually…
It was pure chance that led me to discover Freiburg im Breisgau. I was coming from Basel, in Switzerland, and needed to make my way to Bavaria using the now-famous Deutschlandticket – yes, that was going to take a while. But faced with a limited choice of reasonably…
Munich is a city that knows how to eat. And I had no clue, the first time I came. Because I’m French, and the French are famously, as we should – convinced that nobody cooks quite like we do. We’ll make the odd exception for an Italian pizza,…
Munich is only the beginning of Bavaria. I knew that the first time I visited the region – what I didn’t grasp was just how true it really was. Bavaria turns out to be a patchwork of cultures, landscapes, heritage -and even languages- so varied that traveling from…
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Munich may not be Germany’s capital, but it has everything it takes to be the capital of Bavaria – or arguably of southern Germany as a whole. With an international airport connecting all the way to Asia and South Africa, & a train station linking to several European…
If you’re looking for an alternative to the busier pull of Munich and Nuremberg, Augsburg is the perfect place to spend a weekend in Bavaria. It’s Germany’s second-oldest city, founded over 2,000 years ago as a Roman military camp under Emperor Augustus — from whom it takes its…