The 313-year-old Hotel Elephant, was once the preferred meeting spot for intellectuals like Goethe.

Owner of the hotel-restuarant Lars Zwick, makes fresh bratwurst from pork butchered in town.

The 13th-century fortress is one of the most hauntingly romantic places in Europe. Its stones have survived countless histories: throughout the Mid

Series of 4 15th- and 16th-century patrician mansions, near the central market square, that are a well-preserved slice of history in the heart of t

The restaurant sits on a Beaux-Arts– style pavilion jutting out from the side of the historic Hotel Anna Amalia.

In the busy basement enoteca, decidedly less pricey and formal than the fine-dining room upstairs, dark walnut tables are full of hip young locals;

At the Historische Weinwirtschaft (“Historical Wine Inn”), a stone-walled restaurant with a wood-beamed ceiling, dogs and children run around freel

Stop for coffee and cake on the 11th-century castle’s terrace, with a view of the red-roofed village below.

The 12th-century casle, once a thick-walled tower now stands torn in half, the remnants of centuries of warfare.