Franconia : A description about this holiday area
Datum 23.08.2004 18:44 | Thema: Franconia
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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".
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Franconia is the holiday region in Northern Bavaria and consists of 15 tourist landscapes of quite different character on a total area of 30,000 square kilometres.
Whether Fichtelgebirge or Altmühltal, Frankenwald or the Franconian 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 Franconia“, 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, which is easily reached from all directions and the same distance away from the Mediterranean as from the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. Franconia was even more in the days of long ago: the heart of the Holy Roman Empire of the German nation.
Constant changes determine the natural scenery. There are not just mountains, lakes, alpine pastures or forests, but mostly interesting mixtures of these elements, which are more or less strongly marked according to the area. This is the very reason why Franconia appeals to many holidaymakers as a „small image of Germany“.
More than half of Franconia is also part of a total of nine nature parks: Bavarian Rhön, Spessart, Franconian Switzerland - Veldensteiner Forst, Altmühltal, Steigerwald, Fichtelgebirge, Frankenwald, Hassberge and the Frankenhöhe make a total area of 14,000 square kilometres. That says a lot for the very specific recreational value of a trip to Franconia.
But Franconia has not only been favoured by nature. Particularly the towns with a great history such as Aschaffenburg, Ansbach, Nuremberg, Würzburg, Dinkelsbühl, Bamberg, Bayreuth, Coburg, Eichstätt and naturally the romantic Rothenburg are also to a certain extent architectural highlights in the park landscape.
The holiday region has around 150 large and small towns. Especially the smaller ones among them, which were mostly built in the Middle Ages, have a rare cosy charm with their defence walls, gables and towers, narrow cobblestoned streets and romantic courtyards. Examples of these are Kronach, Prichsenstadt, Ochsenfurt or Miltenberg.
The third holiday factor in Franconia besides recreational and urban tourism are the Franconian health resorts. Altogether 13 health resorts and spas - headed by the fashionable Bad Kissingen, the romantic Bad Brueckenau or the marvellous Bad Steben - ensure that everyone also talks about the holiday destination Franconia in terms of health and wellbeing.
In the best possible way: the health resorts can claim about one third of the almost 20 million overnight stays in the North Bavarian holiday region.
For further information please contact: Tourist Board of Franconia, Postbox 440453, D-90209 Nuremberg , Phone 0049/911/94151-0 ,Fax 0049/911/94151-10 E-Mail info@frankentourismus.de
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