The best-known castles and palaces in Bavaria
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
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Schloss Neuschwanstein, built 1868 to 1892, is 4 km from Füssen. Munich has the Residenz 1 km from the center and Schloss Nymphenburg 6 km out. The Kaiserburg is in the center of Nuremberg. In Franconia, the Residenz Würzburg and Festung Marienberg are 1 and 2 km from Würzburg, the Veste Coburg 1 km from Coburg. Burg Harburg, from the 11th century, is 10 km from Donauwörth.
RLQuest knows 1075 castles and palaces in Bavaria, and 635 of them have a Wikipedia article. Five more kinds have pages here: 1253 viewpoints, 536 caves, 207 ruins, 136 observation towers and 118 waterfalls. Any can turn up as an RLQuest quest; the app verifies the visit from your recorded route and shades in the map a tile at a time.
Every dot is a place. The numbers mark the highlights listed below.
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
A selection, best known first, with the nearest larger town next to each.
and 1,023 more
RLQuest knows these places too. Which means:
Some of your daily quests lead to a real place near you. The app uses your location to check you were really there.
If you're the first person in RLQuest to complete a quest at a place, it's your first find. The Place Book shows you which kinds of place you're still missing.
Every walk uncovers tiles, each about 350 m across. Over time you can see which corners you know well, and where you've never set foot.
Place data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License. Borders: geoBoundaries (CC BY 4.0); Canada: Statistics Canada. As of 2026-10-02. The list shows the places RLQuest knows and isn't complete. Photos come from Wikimedia Commons; author and license are credited on each photo.
