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Sweet Street: The Alsace Chocolate Route

Colourful candies, finest rum truffles or fine chocolate creations: The Route du chocolat et des douceurs d'Alsace stretches for around 200 kilometres from Bad Bergzabern in the Southern Palatinate, via Strasbourg to Retzwiller on the border to Switzerland. 
Around 40 stations can be visited here: Small bakeries and patisseries, which still produce their sweets manually, but also museums such as the Musee du chocolat near Strasbourg or the gingerbread museum in Gertwiller. Even chocolate massages and baths are offered along the route.

View of Correze

Sweet: The Apple Road of the Limousin

The Limousin is famous for its cattle breeding, but the area in the southern centre of France is also apple country: The Romans brought the rose plant to the fertile plateaus around 2000 years ago, and in early modern times the apples reached the French court. Today, some 110,000 tonnes are harvested each year from around 2,800 orchards, with the Golden Delicious leading the way.
Visitors follow the apple along the Apple Route, which runs for more than 50 kilometres through the Corrèze department. In spring, the hiking and cycling trails lead through blossoming apple orchards, past production sites where you can enjoy a must. A trip in autumn is particularly worthwhile: then an apple festival takes place in the small town of Objat.

Show dairy in Affoltern

Swiss original: The Emmental Cheese Route

From Finland to Turkey: Emmental cheese is produced in dozens of countries. But the original comes from the Bernese Mittelland. There - between Burgdorf and Langnau - the Emmental Cheese Route leads past around 21 stations of cheese production and enjoyment.
The starting point of the 78-kilometre route is Burgdorf Castle. Among other things, the high aristocratic castle houses a museum of ethnology and gold jewellery. The tour continues to the show cheese dairy in Affoltern and to Langnau - the region's cheese port. In between: Small cheese dairies that invite you to try cheese.