![]() The German Clock Museum in Furtwangen is more than a chorus of cuckoo clocks it traces the development of clocks from the Dark Ages to the space age. With its clockmaking heritage, it’s no wonder this region has what I consider Europe’s best clock museum. Here you’ll learn why and how the farmers with little to do during the long winters were absolutely cuckoo for clock-making. Built around a grand old farmhouse, the museum makes local folk life vivid, using its collection of antique farms as racks upon which to hang artifacts illustrating otherwise long-gone lifestyles. ![]() The area is steeped in tradition, much of it explained at the Black Forest Open-Air Museum (a.k.a. The forest stretches in a hilly 100-mile range along Germany’s southwestern border with France. The Black Forest is popular with German holiday-goers and overseas tourists looking for serious R&R, clean air, cuckoo clocks, countless hiking possibilities, and chocolate cakes layered with cherries and drenched in schnapps. Explore Germany’s Black Forest - with its plentiful trails and world-class mineral spas - and you’ll know what I mean. ![]() Germans may be notoriously well-organized and efficient, but they are also experts at relaxing. In Germany’s southwest corner, the Black Forest offers a mix of traditional countryside and small cities well-suited for serious R&R. ![]()
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