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Regierungsbezirk in Bavaria, Germany
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is famous as the host of the Richard Wagner Festival, furthermore the Markgräfliches Opernhaus is listed on the UNESCO World Heritage List
tiny town which the Guinness Book of World Records recognises as the town with the most breweries per capita! There's even a beer trail that you can hike with stops at all the local Biergartens
the whole old town of Bamberg is listed on the UNESCO World Heritage List
with ten breweries
it has been the household name for some royal dynasties in Europe
Forchheim is a small town in Franconia with an interesting old town. Forchheim is most famous for its ten-day-long beer and music festival (Annafest) which takes place in late July in an idyllic wooded hillside, home to 24 beer gardens, on the outskirts of the town.
Hof is a city of 45,000 people (2020) in Upper Franconia in Bavaria. Hof, meaning farm estate, is a very common German place name, but this one is specifically Hof an der Saale.
known for the Kulmbach Beer Festival
Mödlareuth is a small, unincorporated German village divided between the towns of Töpen, Upper Franconia, Bavaria and Gefell, Thuringia. Historically, Mödlareuth was split Berlin-style by the East German border wall as part of the front line of Cold War Europe.
Pegnitz is a town of some 14,000 people (2023) in Upper Franconia. The entire preserved inner city centre is a listed building, including the medieval town hall from 1347.
in the heart of Franconian Switzerland with Cave Teufelshöhle and a Sommerrodelbahn (a kind of summer-only dry toboggan)
is arranged like a horseshoe around an inner hill-landscape; the highest mountain is the "Schneeberg (Snow Mountain)" with 1053 m above sealevel
breweries, castle ruins, hiking, canoeing
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