Mittenwald
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Mittenwald is a town of approximately 10,000 inhabitants with a long history, located some thirty kilometers to the south-east of Garmisch-Partenkirchen. It is sited in the Valley of the River Isar, on the northern foothills of the Alps, on the route between the old banking and commercial centre of Augsbourg, to the north, and Innsbruck to the south-east, beyond which is the Brenner Pass and the route to Lombardy, another region with a rich commercial past and present. It's location as an important transit centre on a relatively low (and therefore predicable) transalpine route has been a defining feature of Mittenwald for at least two thousand years: during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries traffic was boosted by large treasure trains sent regularly from Spain to pay troops in the Netherlands, the more conventional sea route having been rendered unreliable by the (usually) discrete but effective sympathy with which the English protestant establishment favoured the Spanish king's rebellious Dutch subjects.
Mittenwald, with its picturesque centre and pink coloured church typical of the region, is famous for the manufacture of violins, and has been a popular halt with tourists since the boom in motorised tourism commmenced in the 1930s.
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