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The Golden Road

It is not a bad thing for us, that the route known as the ‘Goldene Straße’ or the ‘Golden Road’ as we will get to know it- has escaped the attention of so many. It has been spared being overrun by hordes of tourists and as you will discover

The Creation of the Golden Tour

The title ‘The Golden Road’ is so much more than a name. A single route, marked on the map in gold was originally sponsored and planned by Charles IV, who bought up swathes of land in the region known as New Bohemia. The route leads through

The Author’s Tips

A list of ‘Must Sees’ put together by the author's and photgraphers of the "Golden Road", in an alphabetic order. Amberg: Air Museum Cheb: Kaiserpfalz Hersbruck: Slow City Hirschau: Geopark Kaolinrevier

The Golden Tour- an Aperitif

So let’s begin with a question: What am I? I have a shimmering name, but I am mostly grey. At my most Easterly point a Kaiser set his court scientists the task of producing a metal after which I am named. At my most Westerly point there is a

Calendar

The Golden Road has nearly 700 years of history 14th May 1316 - Karl (Charles) IV 1353- The Palatinate family Wittelsbach pawned a territory to Charles IV from Hersbruck to Neustadt, which expanded ‘New Bohemia’ creating a transit