Daun

Worth seeing in and around Daun

9 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

1. 01
   Hoher List

   The Hoher List is a stratovolcano, 549.1 m above sea level, near the town of Daun in the Eifel region. The hill is in the county of Vulkaneifel in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

   4.3 km · hill in Germany · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Hoher List Observatory

   Hoher List Observatorium is an observatory located on the Hoher List mountain about 60 km south-west of the city of Bonn, close to the town of Daun in the Eifel region. It is privately owned and some parts are listed as historic monuments.

   4.3 km · observatory · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Ernstberg

   The Ernstberg southeast of Hinterweiler is, at 698.8 m, the highest of the west Eifel volcanoes and, after the Hohe Acht, the second highest mountain in the Eifel overall. Its summit consists of pyroclastic rocks that form a volcanic crater that is open towards the east.

   5.7 km · mountain · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Gemündener Maar

   The Gemündener Maar is the northernmost of the three Daun Maars. It lies in the immediate vicinity of the village of Gemünden and ca.

   2.4 km · lake (maar) in the Eifel, Germany · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Weinfelder Maar

   The Weinfelder Maar, also called the Totenmaar, is a maar around two kilometres southeast of the town of Daun in the Eifel Mountains, in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

   2.8 km · lake (maar) in the Eifel, Germany · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Nerother Kopf

   The Nerother Kopf is the conical hill of an extinct volcano near Neroth in the Eifel mountains. It is 651.7 m above sea level and situated in the county of Vulkaneifel in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

   5.1 km · mountain · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Schalkenmehrener Maar

   The Schalkenmehrener Maar is a maar roughly 3 km southeast of the town of Daun in the Eifel in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is one of the Daun Maars or Daun Maar Group and is a double maar, comprising a western maar lake and an eastern dry maar.

   3.7 km · lake (maar) in the Eifel, Germany · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Volcanic Eifel Nature Park

   The Volcanic Eifel Nature Park lies in the counties of Bernkastel-Wittlich, Cochem-Zell and Vulkaneifel in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The nature park, which is in the Eifel mountains, and which is also a geopark, was inaugurated on 31 May 2010 and has an area of 1,068.24 km2.> Its sponsor is the Natur- und Geopark Vulkaneifel GmbH. The Volcanic Eifel Nature Park incorporates large parts of the Volcanic Eifel and parts of the Volcanic West Eifel with its volcanoes that were still active until about 10,000 years ago numerous maars and lava streams as well as mineral springs and carbonic springs.

   5.7 km · nature park in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Volcano Museum, Daun

   The Volcano Museum in the old district administrative office in Daun, Germany, was set up as an extension of the existing 'geopaths' at Hillesheim, Manderscheid and Gerolstein and is part of the Volcanic Eifel Nature and Geopark. Numerous information boards, photographs and exhibits from the Volcanic Eifel, as well as of currently active volcanoes in Europe and Asia, offer insights into the geological development of the Volcanic Eifel region.

   200 m · volcano museum in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany · Wikipedia

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Frankfurt-Hahn (HHN), 42 km · Cologne Bonn (CGN), 77 km · Luxembourg-Findel (LUX), 78 km

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  82 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · €11–15
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  114 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · €14–19
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