The route spans 460km / 285 miles across Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, starting in Würzburg and ending in Füssen, and links a number of picturesque towns, churches, and castles.
The Romantic Road, in German Romantische Straße, is a marketed themed route designed in the 1950s to increase visitor numbers and tourist-related jobs in southern Germany – decades before Scotland’s North Coast 500 was even thought of!