
The Harz Mountains are a stunning highland area and national park in Germany with medieval villages and a network of nostalgic narrow gauge steam railways. Prepare to be enchanted as we explore Quedlinburg, a UNESCO World Heritage Site town with pastel painted houses and ornate buildings featuring fairytale façades. We also call at the 12th century Cistercian Monastery Michaelstein, a popular destination on Germany’s Romanesque Road with its medieval style gardens. On another day we embark on a narrow-gauge steam train trip, climbing to the summit of Mount Brocken to take in stunning panoramas before continuing our railway journey through picturesque landscapes to pretty as a picture Wernigerode. Here, we enjoy a guided tour of its old town along with entry to the storybook castle. Icing on the Harz cake will be our guided tour of romantic Goslar, known as the heart of the Harz and “Rome of the North”, with its thousand years of history.