Everyone knows the Romantic Road, this unbroken series of romantic places and landscapes between Würzburg and Füssen, the Main Valley and the foot of the Alps. The new 500 km long long-distance hiking trail does not lead on trunk roads (where it is possible – asphalt can no longer be completely avoided these days) but on forest and field paths, corridor access routes, in cities if possible on footpaths and always right through the city centers – because what is hiking for one on a “Romantic Road”, if one does not get to know the romance of the old towns between Würzburg and Füssen, Rothenburg ob der Tauber and Augsburg, Creglingen and Dinkelsbühl, old imperial cities like Donauwörth, aristocratic cities like Schillingsfürst, cities of the knightly order like Bad Mergentheim and residences like Wallerstein?