Each week, we spotlight a dream vacation recommended by some of the industry's top travel writers. This week's pick is Germany's Romantic Road. When I told friends that I was going to spend a few days ...

A 500-year-old oak tree outside the town of Eutin, Germany, has been matching singles for more than a century and is reportedly responsible for 100-plus marriages. On a chilly afternoon deep in ...

I was driving along Germany’s “Romantic Road” when I realized a few things. For one, bombs cannot kill cities. For another, eccentrics sometimes create masterpieces. For a third, the olden days seem ...

Let's be honest: the Romantic Road isn't all romantic. The tourist route was dreamed up as a post-war marketing ploy, anchored at its southern end by King Ludwig II of Bavaria's famous fairy-tale ...

HOHENSCHWANGAU, Germany — I was driving along the Romantic Road when I realized a few things. For one, bombs cannot kill cities. For another, eccentrics sometimes create masterpieces. For a third, ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Standing before Caspar David Friedrich’s gloomy Romantic painting “Man and Woman Contemplating the Moon”, Samuel ...