European Christmas markets have become a popular destination for many each holiday season, and this German market comes with ...

We spent three days in Germany's Black Forest, which is said to have inspired famous fairy-tales. It has some of the best hiking trails and castle ruins in Germany, and I loved its eponymous cake.

The Black Forest region, nestled in the tri-border area of Germany, Switzerland and France, offers a blend of natural beauty, adventure and culinary excellence. This 2.7 million-acre vacation ...

On the Brennersteig trail, a German journalist follows a route lined with orchards, distilleries, and endless tiny ...

ENZKLOSTERLE, Germany (AP) — The Black Forest gets its name from a canopy of trees so dense that the woods seem dark, pierced only by shafts of sunlight. Mushrooms sprout across the damp forest floor.

THE FAIRY TALE version of Germany still exists, more than anywhere else, in the Black Forest. Villages of half-timbered houses dot deep valleys in the shadow of mountainsides thick with spruce and fir ...

“The valley we’re in is home to over a thousand distilleries producing schnapps — the highest concentration in Europe,” says Hannes Schmidt, CEO of the Boar Distillery. Photograph by Yulia Denisyuk He ...

Climate change is leaving its mark on the bog complexes of the German Black Forest. Due to rising temperatures and longer dry periods, two plant species have already gone extinct over the last 40 ...