Sisi’s Road
Cultural route from Bavaria to the Adriatic

Sisi’s Road leads to many places which played a significant role in the life of Elisabeth, born in Bavaria into the House of Wittelsbach and lovingly called “Sisi” in her childhood and youth. Through her marriage to Emperor Franz Joseph I of Habsburg, she became Empress of Austria which included rule over much of modern-day Italy. Only a few years later she was also crowned Queen of Hungary. The unconventional Elisabeth, especially fond of horseback riding and traveling, was long considered the most beautiful woman of her time.

Sisi’s Road is a European route leading to castles and cities which were a part of the monarch’s life. Its highlights are recommended for individual tourists as well as groups: large cities, castles, monuments, museums, gardens and parks.

When the German TV-magazine HÖRZU presented “The most beautiful dream roads in the world” in 2003, Sisi’s Road was among the 12 touristic routes and one of four in Europe. Today Sisi’s Road leads to Bavaria, through Austria and Hungary, since 2004 through Italy to the Adriatic coast, and since 2008 also to Geneva in Switzerland where the life of the Austrian Empress and Queen of Hungary ended in 1898. But Sisi’s legend lives on ...