The Palatinate Forest Nature Park lies in the south of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany and borders on France. The nature park covers an area of 177,100 hectares (684 sq mi) and some 76% of its area is under the woods of the Palatinate Forest, the largest contiguous forest region in Germany. Together with parts of northern Alsace and Lorraine, it forms the Palatinate Forest-North Vosges Biosphere Reserve and has an impressive Bunter sandstone landscape.
There are many old castles in the Palatinate Forest. Berwartstein castle is one of the more recent.
Natural monuments like Teufelstisch (Devil's Table) here, can be experienced throughout the region. They are outcroppings of bunter sandstone, strangely shaped by millennia of slow erosion
Humberg Tower on the Humberg
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The Palatinate Forest, sometimes also called the Palatine Forest, is a low-mountain region in southwestern Germany, located in the Palatinate in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The forest is a designated nature park covering 1,771 km2 and its highest elevation is the Kalmit.
Hardenburg Castle near Bad Dürkheim
Lake Eiswoog, Ramsen
St. James' Church, ruins of Höningen Abbey (1120-1569)
Highest peak: Kalmit (673 m)