Limburg an der Lahn Vacations, Limburg an der Lahn Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide

Limburg is very much a town of two halves. When you arrive, in the modern half of the town you find a typical modern German market town with plenty of shops, a couple of restaurants and the like. Then you cross a road and suddenly you are on the edge of the old town - bustling narrow lanes, full of restaurants and cafes with such beautiful examples of C17th half-timbered buildings that you will spend most of your visit with your head craned backwards looking at the architecture. At the other …

The second half of our first day trip was dedicated to Limburg. We got a bit lost on the way from Butzbach to Limburg because we had decided to take the long route through the Taunus rather than the more direct one so that we could have a quick stop and take in the landscape from a few scenic viewpoints. It was indeed a very pleasant short drive, but unfortunately the viewpoint we had picked turned out to be quite disappointing and less spectacular than some of the views we had just simply dr…