Return to your childhood on the German Fairy-Tale Route
Welcome to the world of bold princes, good fairies, simple farm-boys, "Puss in Boots", "Little Red Riding Hood" and all the other wonderful fairy-tale characters created here in Germany by the Brothers Grimm. Welcome to the 400-mile-long German Fairy-Tale Route from Hanau to Bremen, where the it still feels exactly as if you're traveling through a child's book of illustrated Fairy Tales.
If you're traveling in winter through Werra-Land, with a little bit of luck perhaps you'll spy "Mrs Holle" shaking out her quilts. Journey deep into the Reinhard Forest, and that big grey castle could be where Sleeping Beauty slept. In the hill country of the River Weser, just behind the seven hills, lived the Seven Dwarfs. It's where they encountered the town "Musicians of Bremen", who led them to freedom.
It's not merely the fairy-tale quality of towns such as Hanau, Marburg, Goettingen, Minden and Bremen. Or the half-timbered villages of Hesse, the breadbasket of Germany on the upper reaches of the River Weser. Or the forests of Spessart or Kassel's Wilhelmshoehe park and palace. But it's also the unspoiled landscapes that surround these treasures. Don't miss the nature reserves, and protected wilderness that lie along the route as it winds through gently rolling landscapes of fertile river-meadows and bright-green fields. Come enter the world of Fairy-Tales, Germany's legacy to the children of the world.
