After breakfast at your hotel, head south on the E43 road to Dinkelsbühl, another medieval gem with its four gateways and walls still intact, beautiful Renaissance half-timbered houses and one of the most important churches in southern Germany, St. George Minster, a masterpiece of 15th-century Gothic style. After your visit to Dinkelsbühl, continue south on the Romantic Road to Augsburg, a university city and Germany's third-oldest town. It was founded by the Roman Emperor Augustus' step-children, which is how it got its name. The town center is very attractive, with many beautiful fountains, a Renaissance Town Hall, and an interesting cathedral with beautiful 12th-century stained glass. Playwright Berthold Brecht and Amadeus Mozart's father, Leopold, were both born here and both of their birth houses are now museums. St. Anne's Church, formerly part of a Carmelite abbey where Martin Luther stayed in 1518, is the oldest Renaissance building in Germany.
(Breakfast, Rothenburg; Accommodations, Augsburg)