Black Forest girls, Black Forest houses, Black Forest gateau, traditional hats and cuckoo clocks – the Black Forest epitomizes picture-postcard holidays in Germany throughout the world.

The Black Forest, measuring almost 200 kilometres from north to south and 60 kilometres from east to west, is not only Germany's most varied holiday region, but also one of its largest and probably best-known areas of Germany throughout the world.

The 13,500 square kilometres in the south-west of Germany known as the Black Forest, in fact includes a number of different landscapes. ... >> more