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Bavaria is a region in Germany and the country's largest state to the surface. The state capital is Munich.

Regions

Bavaria has 7 administrative districts

District	Capital
Upper Bavaria	Munich
Lower Bavaria	Landshut
Oberpfalz	Regensburg
Oberfranken	Bayreuth
Mittelfranken	Ansbach
Lower Franks	Würzburg
Swabia	Augsburg

Important tourist regions:

• Allgäu
• Altmühltal
• Alpenvorland
• Bavarian Alps
• Bayerischer Wald
• Chiemgau
• Chiemgauer Alps
• Donaumoos
• Donauried
• Donauries
• Fichtelgebirge
• Franconia
• Frankenhöhe
• Frankenwald
• Frankish Alb
• Franconian Switzerland
• Gäuboden
• Hassberge
• Holledau
• Inn-Salzach
• Lechfeld
• Upper Bavaria
• Oberland
• Oberpfälzer Wald
• Rhön
• Rupertiwinkel
• Nördlinger Ries
• Salzburger Kalkalpen
• Spessart
• Steigerwald

Cities

• Amberg - Beautiful old town
• Aschaffenburg - on the river Main, the gateway to Spessart
• Augsburg - The ancient Roman city, a medieval city, which was home to the wealthy merchant Jacob Fugger
• Bad Reichenhall - Spa in the Alps

• Berchtesgaden - with the national park Berchtesgaden
• Bamberg - The world-famous cathedral and old town are a UNESCO World Heritage Site
• Bayreuth - City of Richard Wagner Festival
• Burghausen - Beautiful old town in the Inn - Salzach style, Europe's longest castle

• Coburg - historic center and Veste Coburg.
• Dinkelsbühl - Complete medieval Old Town
• Eichstätt - Beautiful baroque town in the Altmühltal
• Freising - Old bishop's town with romantic Old Town

• Garmisch-Partenkirchen - Ski resort in the Bavarian Alps, the starting point of the nearby Zugspitze
• Ingolstadt Last major city in Bavaria, former residence of the Dukes of Bavaria
• Kelheim - With Befreiungshalle beautiful old town
• Kulmbach - The secret capital of beer with Plassenburg

• Landshut - Medieval city, old residence of the Dukes of Bavaria
• Lindau - A town on a peninsula in Lake Constance, the town house dating from the Renaissance
• Munich - State capital, museums, cultural
• Neuburg an der Donau - the old town with many historic buildings from all eras is one of the most beautiful in Bavaria

• Nuremberg - the second largest city and center of Franconia. Known for the toy industry and its Christmas market (Christkindlesmarkt)
• Passau - Old Roman city on the Austrian border, beautiful romantic Old Town
• Regensburg - Ancient Roman and Imperial City on the banks of the river Danube (Old Town is a UNESCO World Heritage Site)
• Rosenheim - Beautiful old town in the Inn - Salzach style

• Rothenburg ob der Tauber - Completely preserved medieval center with city walls
• Schweinfurt - The old imperial city on Main
• Wasserburg am Inn - Small old town on a peninsula Inn
• Würzburg - Prince and Bishop's residence with a garden that is on the UNESCO World Heritage List

Other destinations

• Andechs - The Benedictine monastery with its world-famous brewery is an old pilgrimage
• Weltenburg - Monastery in Kelheim on the Danube. The Monastery Brewery World Castle was founded in 1050 and is now probably the oldest existing monastery brewery in the world
• The Bavarian state brewery Weihenstephan brewery is owned by the state of Bavaria in the buildings of the former monastery Weihenstephan on the "Weihenstephaner Berg" in the district of Freising Weihenstephan.

• Zugspitze is Germany's highest mountain. The peak is at 2,962.06 m above sea level.
• Neuschwanstein is a castle outside Füssen built by King Ludwig II of Bavaria beginning in 1869.

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