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Extract from the Fssen Travel Guides:
FSSEN
, the southern terminus of the Romantic Road, lies in a beautiful setting close to the Austrian border between the
Forggensee
reservoir and the
Ammer
mountains. Although used by most visitors merely as a jumping-off point for the two royal castles situated some 4km to the southeast, it's of far more than passing interest. Dominating the Lech valley from a position high above the Altstadt is the
Hohes Schloss
, which assumed its present late Gothic appearance at the turn of the sixteenth century, when the old fortress was rebuilt as a summer residence of the Augsburg prince-bishops.... read the whole Fssen Travel Guides...
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