{"id":2790,"date":"2016-06-05T09:43:22","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T15:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dltwt.com\/?p=2790"},"modified":"2016-06-05T09:43:22","modified_gmt":"2016-06-05T15:43:22","slug":"magical-mittenwald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/?p=2790","title":{"rendered":"Magical Mittenwald"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mittenwald is a “living fairy-tale picture book”.\u00a0 Prior to our visit on Thursday, we read that Mittenwald was voted one of the 10 most beautiful villages in Europe – and indeed it is that and much more.\u00a0 This idyllic Bavarian village is situated in a beautiful valley created by the Isar River and surrounded by majestic mountains.\u00a0 It is a 2 1\/2 hour train ride from Munich. The scenery is so lovely that our time on the train “sped” by.\u00a0 We just can’t get enough of these charming Bavarian towns!\u00a0 What makes Mittenwald so unique and incredibly picturesque are the enchanting and masterful frescoes on all the building and homes throughout this historic town.\u00a0 The houses look exactly like Hummel houses – wooden roofs, impressive exterior decorative paintings with ornately carved gables and flower boxes under every window.\u00a0\u00a0 Other places exudes grandeur and historical charm; however, we hate to say it but this place is so darn “cute”.\u00a0 This town .\u00a0 .\u00a0 .\u00a0 if it had cheeks, you would want to pinch them.\u00a0 Mitterrand is also famous for its violin manufacturing; and, of course, wonderful hiking trails.
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\nWhile the spectacular surrounding mountains and lakes in Mittenwald were begging to be explored, the weather set some limitations on us.\u00a0 We had originally planned today to visit Garmisch-Partenkirchen (about 20 minutes from Mittenwald) to go up by cogwheel train and cable car to the Zugspitze.\u00a0 It is Germany’s highest peak.\u00a0 The cloudy and rainy weather nixed this mission.\u00a0 We were so disappointed.\u00a0 Like Garmisch-Patenkirchen, Mittenwald has the Karwendal Cable Car to whisk you up to the mountain top, as well.
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\nWe had a delightful light lunch at a quaint Bavarian restaurant in the center of Mittenwald.\u00a0 One side note – they clearly don’t have many English speaking tourists – none of the restaurants had English menus.\u00a0 Although it was quite cloudy, we decided to risk it and take a 45-minute hike to one of the lakes since we had our rain gear in tow.\u00a0 As we were about to reach Lake Lautersee, there was a picture-perfect meadow with an incredibly adorable church and a flock of sheep with loud bells clanging around their necks.\u00a0 One can only image that it could be a scene out of the movie Sound of Music!\u00a0 Lake Lautersee was crystal clear and it’s depth accented with gradient shades of blue.\u00a0 There was also a few quaint restaurants and a couple of small lodges surrounding the lake.\u00a0 The entire, glorious scene was even more entrancing with the enormous sawtooth Karwendal and Wetterstein Mountain ranges that hovered over the lake.\u00a0 And then . . .
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\nIt started pouring.\u00a0 We began walking back into town and decided to make the next train and visit Garmisch-Partenkirchen.\u00a0 Our phone said it would take us 30 minutes to get back to town and the train was leaving in 25 minutes; so we ran like crazy fools and just made it within 2 minutes of departure.\u00a0 We discovered that Garmisch-Partenkirchen for many centuries were separate towns but were forced to merge by Hitler ahead of the 1936 Winter Olympics.\u00a0 GP is much larger than Mittenwald.\u00a0 Despite the merger of the two towns they still appear to have their own identity with Garmisch being modern while Partenkirchen still has those fabulous fresco painted houses, churches & building like Mittenwald along with cobbled streets.\u00a0 As we entered the town by train, there was an enormous ski jump; however, our Park City ski jump is longer and higher.\u00a0 There are lots more restaurants and shops here; but we, loved the quintessential Bavarian town of Mittenwald best.\u00a0 Both towns are hiker’s heaven.
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One of many Bavarian homes in Mittenwald<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Mittenwald cafe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The artists are busy in Bavaria<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Violin<\/a>
Violin Manufacturing occurs in Mittenwald<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Quite<\/a>
Quite a collection of stuff on the house<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Chapel<\/a>
The adorable Chapel near Lake Lautersee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Sheep<\/a>
Sheep are there too<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"OLYMPUS<\/a>
Lake Lautersee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Artistry<\/a>
Artistry in Garmish<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Home<\/a>
Home decorating<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Symmetry<\/a>
Symmetry is important so a few windows are often faux<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Religious<\/a>
Religious themes are common<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mittenwald is a “living fairy-tale picture book”.\u00a0 Prior to our visit on Thursday, we read that Mittenwald was voted one of the 10 most beautiful villages in Europe – and indeed it is that and much more.\u00a0 This idyllic Bavarian village is situated in a beautiful valley created by the Isar River and surrounded by … Continue reading Magical Mittenwald<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Si9J-J0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2790"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2803,"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790\/revisions\/2803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dltwt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}