Stretching more than 170 km to south, and up to 60 km east to west, the Black Forest ("Schwarzwald") is the largest German forest - and probably the most beautiful one. Less than 100 years ago much of this area was an eerie wilderness, a refuge for boars and bandits. Nowadays the region is one of the most visited ones in Germany and most of the villages have been opened up as spa and health resorts like Baden-Baden, brimming with shops selling tacky souvenirs.

Railway fans will find several of the most spectacular lines in Europe here. The only city actually surrounded by the forest is Freiburg im Breisgau.

Aachen
Altmuhl
Assmannshausen am Rhein
Augsburg
Baden-Baden
Bamberg
Bayreuth
Berchtesgaden
Berlin Mitte
Black Forest
Bonn
Braunschweig
Bremen
Charlottenburg
Coburg
Cochem
Cologne
Cottbus
Dachau
Dresden
Dusseldorf
Engelskirchen
Erfurt
Esslingen
Ettal
Föhren
Flensburg
Frankfurt
Freiburg
Friedrichshafen
Friedrichshain
Frisian islands
Fussen
Garmisch-partenkirchen
Giessen
Goslar
Gronau
Halle
Hamburg
Hameln
Hannover
haymer
Heidelberg
Hombroich
Hornburg
Insel Hombroich
Karlsruhe
Kassel
Kiel
Koblenz
Konstanz
Kreuzberg
Lake constance
Landsberg
Lübeck
Leipzig
Lieser
Lindau
Ludwigsburg
Luneburg
Magdeburg
Mainz
Mannheim
Marburg
Mehring
Meissen
Mittenwald
Munich
Munster
Naumburg
Neckargemuend
Neuschwanstein
Nurburgring
Nuremberg
Oberammergau
Oberhof
Passau
Potsdam
Prenzlauer Berg
Rüsselsheim
Regensburg
Rheinsberg
Rostock
Rothenburg
Rudesheim
Saarbrucken
Schiltach
Schleissheim
Schleswig
Schoneberg
Schwerin
Speyer
Spreewald
Stralsund
Stuttgart
Sylt
Thuringian forest
Traunstein
Trier
Tubingen
Ulm
Warnemunde
Weimar
Wernigerode
Wiesbaden
Winterberg
Wismar
Wittenberg
wolfenbüttel
Worms
wuppertal
Wurzburg