Trips for all the senses – The D9 long-distance cycle trail along the Romantic Road

You’ve visited Landsberg, Hohenfurch, Schongau and Peiting, admired historic market squares and chosen places for a cup of coffee, and you’ve marvelled at churches and chapels. On previous days you’ve walked around the town walls in Rain, explored the centre of Augsburg and visited the castle in Friedberg.

Time for impressions

A cycle tour along the Romantic Road is, for many, the perfect way to explore the stretch between Würzburg and Füssen. You’re travelling along at good pace, but there’s still enough time to drink in the many impressions. You can feel the wind in your hair as the trail goes steeply downhill from the Harburg or when, after a short climb, the path in the Pfaffenwinkel snakes downhill again. And sometimes, you simply like to come to a halt, without causing traffic chaos: on the approach to Wallerstein, for example, which rises up in the heart of the Nördlinger Ries region, on glimpsing Rottenbuch Abbey, which soars up so impressively in the picturesque landscape, or on the way to Schwangau, when the majestic Neuschwanstein Castle looms against the backdrop of rugged rock cliffs.

Churches, monasteries, craters

If you cycle along this trail, you will discover the ‘Best’ of Franconia, Baden, Württemberg, Swabia, Upper Bavaria and the Allgäu. Vineyards, river valleys, a landscape of stone structures, Baroque pilgrimage churches, Romanesque monastery walls, a Prehistoric meteorite crater, Medieval townscapes with fortified towers and gateways, wild and romantic river valleys and fishing lakes, landscapes with gentle hills and plains, woods and pastures, lakes surrounded by meadows, and finally, the Alps … These are 500 kilometres that you will never forget.