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Why you're safe with the holiday experts

DERTOUR is part of the DERTOUR GmbH group of Frankfurt - one of the world's leading tour operators . We also hold our own ATOL and are members of ABTA.

We've been creating perfect tailor-made holidays to the heart of Europe for 50 years. A lot has changed in that time, but one thing that has always remained the same is our total focus on serving you in the very best way that we can. This includes ensuring your satisfaction and security. It's why DERTOUR is fully licenced with our own ATOL and is also adheres to all the rules and principles of ABTA.

ATOL is a financial protection scheme for holidaymakers travelling on an air inclusive holiday, which is managed by the Civil Aviation Authority. This protects you from losing your money or from being stranded overseas in the very unlikely event that DERTOUR should go out of business. Our Air Travel Organiser's Licence (ATOL) number is ATOL 1839.

When you buy an ATOL protected air inclusive holiday* from us, you will receive a confirmation invoice from us (or via our authorised agent through which you booked) confirming your arrangements and your protection under our ATOL.

* The air inclusive holidays we arrange are ATOL protected providing either the person who pays for the booking is present in the UK when the booking is made or the first leg of any flight or flights we arrange for you commences in the UK. For further information, visit the ATOL website at www.atol.org.uk

ABTA was created in 1950 by 22 leading travel companies. It now represents over 5,000 travel agencies and more than 900 tour operators, right across the British Isles. ABTA helps to maintain the highest standards of trading practice for the travel industry and its customers. The ABTA logo is a sign that you can expect choice, value and high levels of service from DERTOUR.

DERTOUR is also fully committed to always try to provide an alternative holiday or route in times of disruption that is out of our control, such as in the event of volcanic ash, disruption to air travel due to heavy snowfall or an airline strike grounding aircraft.

If you have any questions about our ABTA membership or the financial protection provided under our ATOL, please don't hesitate to call us on 020 7290 1104.

Dertour gives you ATOL protection with every flight

The picturesque town of Rothenburg
These impressive city walls surround Rohtenburg.

Rothenburg Travel Guide

As you walk up to the medieval wall of Rothenburg in Germany, and enter the city through its ring of intact fortifications, you will be transported back to a different century. The town is one of Germany's best-preserved medieval cities, and the two main market streets are full of picture-perfect houses, cafés and restaurants. Regional specialities can be enjoyed in cosy taverns with Franconian wine as the perfect accompaniment.

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Friese-Kabalo Kunstgewerbe OHG - this shop specialises in cuckoo clocks, pewter beer steins, music boxes and dolls.

Visit the year-round Christmas shop of Käthe Wohlfahrt's Weihnachtswerkstatt, which is packed with hand-carved christmas decorations and gifts.

For teddy lovers, a visit to Teddyland is a must! They stock more than 5000 of them, which is the largest population in Germany!

During peak season, restaurants along the Romantic Road tend to be crowded, especially in the larger towns. You may want to plan your meal times around visits to smaller villages, where there are fewer people and the restaurants are pleasant. The food will be more basic Franconian or Swabian, but it will also be generally less expensive than in the well-known towns. You may find that some of the small, family-run restaurants close around 2 PM, or whenever the last lunch guests have left, and open again at 5 or 5:30 PM. Some serve cold cuts or coffee and cake during that time, but no hot food.

Mittelalterliches Kriminalmuseum (historic criminal museum)

The gruesome medieval implements of torture on display here are not for the fainthearted. The museum, the largest of its kind in Europe, also soberly documents the history of German legal processes in the Middle Ages.

Town Hall

Half of the town hall is Gothic, begun in 1240; the other half is neoclassical, started in 1572. Below the building are the Historiengewölbe (Historic Vaults. EUR 2. Apr.-Oct., daily 9:30-5:30; Christmas market season, daily 1-4), housing a museum that concentrates on the Thirty Years' War.

St. Wolfgang

A historic parish church of Gothic origins with a baroque interior, St. Wolfgang's is most notable for the way it blends into the forbidding city wall.

City Wall

Rothenburg's city walls are more than 2 km (1 mi) long and provide an excellent way of circumnavigating the town from above. The walls' wooden walkway is covered by eaves. Stairs every 200 or 300 yards provide easy access. There are superb views of the tangle of pointed and tiled red roofs and of the rolling country beyond.

St. Jakob

The church has some notable Riemenschneider sculptures, including the famous Heiliges Blut (Holy Blood) altar. Above the altar a crystal capsule is said to contain drops of Christ's blood. There are three 14th- and 15th-century stained-glass windows in the choir, and the Herlin-Altar is famous for its 15th-century painted panels.