With their half-timbered houses, cobbled alleys and magnificent Gothic and Baroque castles, Bavaria’s towns are as ...

Turret-ly in love with castles? Germany's southern Bavaria region might be your ideal holiday destination - because as these eye-catching pictures show, it's festooned with fairytale-like citadels ...

There are plenty of great hiking trails in southern Bavaria, but few compare to the trekking not far from the Alpine resort town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Germany’s highest peak — the ...

The largest state in Germany, Bavaria was also its own kingdom for many years. Here's a breakdown of the Bundesland using maps.

07/21/2021 Residents are picking up the pieces after flooding caused havoc in southern Germany. But some locals are worried that climate change could mean worse disasters are yet to come. Elliot ...

Bavaria's top security official says a man who blew himself up after being turned away from an open-air music festival in the southern German city was a 27-year-old Syrian who had been denied asylum.

Two trains collided head-on in southern Bavaria early Tuesday, killing at least 10 people and injuring dozens, many seriously, German police said.

Hilltop castles and green energy, beer halls and luxury cars, Alps and edgy art – southern Germany blends thigh-slapping tradition with clear-headed modernity like nowhere else on earth. The ...

Winter has come early in Bavaria. Unexpected heavy snowfall has brought traffic to a halt in southern Germany, as well as Austria and Switzerland, and left thousands of people without power.