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Germany’s Allgäu region is one of the country’s most popular tourist destinations. Travelers of all ages flock there for clean air and unspoiled picture-postcard landscapes that make them want to quit their city jobs and move to rural Germany: lush green valleys and high mountain passes; neatly kept farmhouses, their wooden balconies overflowing with pink petunias and red geraniums; snow-capped Alpine peaks reflected in the clear blue waters of cold mountain lakes—all these pastoral pleasures punctuated by the soft clanging of cow bells and the pealing of church bells. Yet the Allgäu almost never feels overcrowded, even during tourist season.
What to see and what to do: