City tours
Baroque diversity in historic Bayreuth
Explore Bayreuth with a city guide and discover the city center, the Historical Museum, the castle tower and the New Palace. The Hofgarten and Haus Wahnfried are also presented.
Walks through the city center of Hof
The best way to get to know Hof is on a city tour. Here you will get to know well-known sights and secret corners of the city. Various tours offer a mixture of interesting facts, humorous, surprising and sometimes scary – but always exciting and entertaining.
Erika Fuchs House | Museum for Comics and Language Arts
Welcome to Duckburg! Germany’s first comic museum is located in Schwarzenbach a.d. Saale. The translator Dr. Erika Fuchs, who taught Donald Duck and his friends the German language, lived here. A short walk connects the museum, home and grave with some of the town’s sights.
Medieval flair in a modern shopping town – Zwickau
In Zwickau, you can roam through history: the city tour introduces you to the Gewandhaus, the Dünnebierhaus and St. Mary’s Cathedral with its medieval priests’ houses. The Postal Column and Powder Tower, relics of the town wall, bear witness to the long history of settlement on the Mulde.
Discover the Max Reger city of Weiden
Whether old-established stores, international chains or specialist stores – the historic old town of Weiden invites you to take a stroll. On Wednesdays and Saturdays, the popular weekly and farmers’ market is set up at the Lower Market. Taste and enjoy the regional delicacies.
Cycle tours
By bike to Franzensbad and the Soos nature reserve
The tour starts in Cheb and leads to the extinct volcano in Kammerbühl. After the next stage, there is a good opportunity to take a break in Franzensbad and relax like a spa guest. The route continues towards Hajek to the Soos nature reserve with a possible stopover at the butterfly house in Stodola. The circle closes along the Ohře/Eger back towards Cheb. The cycle tour through the Egerland is suitable for families.
Cycling fun and beer enjoyment in the Upper Palatinate Forest
The Upper Palatinate Forest greets you comfortably, but in a wildly romantic way, first on the Waldnaab cycle path and from Neustadt on the Bockl cycle path – a former railroad line. Castles, palaces, pilgrimage churches and rose quartz rocks line the route. You can eat well in the incomparable atmosphere of the Zoiglstuben – which tell of a 600-year-old brewing tradition.
In the Schleizer Oberland on the Euregio-Egrensis long-distance cycle path
The Schleizer Oberland has some superlatives to offer: Germany’s oldest natural race track – the Schleizer Dreieck, the largest reservoir – the Bleilochtalsperre, and the pond landscape in the land of a thousand lakes, which stretches across a plateau of the slate mountains. Cyclists can head north to the nature and landscape conservation area near Plothen or south to the Bleiloch dam.
Stiftländer Karpfen-Radweg – excursion into the flora and fauna of the Waldnaabaue
A circular tour through the Waldnaabaue nature conservation project brings cyclists very close to beavers, ospreys, black storks and cranes. The fishing villages of Kornthan and Muckenthal or the fishing museum in Tirschenreuth are particularly interesting.
Family-friendly bridge cycle route Bavaria-Bohemia
The cycle path runs over a number of listed bridges through the unmistakable landscape of the Fichtelgebirge. The route is very flat and family-friendly on a former railroad line from Leupoldsdorf via Wunsiedel and Thiersheim to Selb. The bird of prey park with falconry in Wunsiedel is just as exciting as the Porzellanikon in Selb.
Eger cycle path
Cycling pleasure in the German-Czech border region. The long-distance cycle path stretches from the source to the estuary over a length of around 270 km. In the Fichtelgebirge, 50 km are tempting. Numerous highlights await along the way, such as the Schneeberg summit, Lake Weissenstadt, Loket Castle and, as a highlight at the end, the magnificent city center of Karlovy Vary.
Cycling region Bavarian-Bohemian
The Bavarian-Bohemian Spas cycling region is a treasure trove of powerful geology, magnificent spas and traditional hospitality. On both sides of the German-Czech border you will find a paradise for cyclists.
Hiking tour
Journey into romance – around Bad Berneck on the Thiesenring
This varied hiking route leads over hills and through valleys in extensive deciduous forests. Numerous vantage points offer ever-changing views of Bad Berneck and the Fichtelgebirge. The romantically situated castle ruins of Neu-Wallenrode, the Kneipp spa gardens and the charming Ölschnitztal valley are just some of the highlights of the hike. Also worth seeing is the historic market square in the spa town of Bad Berneck – the “hidden paradise”.
Quality hiking trail through the Weiße Elster valley
The start is princely, the finish is rural – along the Weiße Elster you experience a journey through time. The first stops on the romantic quality hiking trail are the English-style park in Greiz and the summer palace with its collection of copper engravings. In Nitschareuth, it is worth visiting the farmer’s museum and the historic village green. From Neumühle back to Greiz, you can take a train ride along the river valley to take it all in again.
Nature trail to the Glatzen moor nature reserve
In the Kaiserwald forest, a nature trail leads to the Tajga moor, which is reminiscent of the vast Russian landscape with its Nordic coniferous forest and numerous lakes. On the nature trail, 14 information boards provide information about the special features of the nature reserve.
Steep uphill and downhill in Himmelskroner Forst
Between Neuenmarkt and Marktschorgast, the route takes you along the “Schiefe Ebene” educational trail on the history of engineering and construction through Himmelskroner Forst. In 1848, steam locomotives overcame a height difference of 158 meters and a gradient of 1:40 without technical aids for the first time on this railroad line. The German Steam Locomotive Museum in Neuenmarkt shows the history of the “black giants” and delights visitors with its steam locomotive show. In Marktschorgast station, an exhibition provides information about the details of the technical masterpieces and structures on the inclined plane.
Green forests, deep gorges along the Göltzsch and Weiße Elster rivers
On the “Vogtland Panorama Trail”, you can experience the two largest brick bridges in the world – the Göltzschtal and Elstertal bridges – on a hike from the start and finish points. The Köhlersteig trail through the wild and romantic gorge takes you through the Göltzschtal valley to where it flows into the Weiße Elster river in Greiz. The hiking trail then follows the Elster valley and runs through the Steinicht nature reserve. The hike is very varied.