In seven walks, Elisabeth Tworek explores both familiar and unfamiliar places in a historically evolved Bavarian cultural landscape. Along the way, she discusses writers, painters, and artists from around the world who have spent time in the Bavarian pre-Alps. Their diaries, letters, autobiographies, compositions, and paintings provide insights into why they found the pre-Alps enriching and inspiring for their artistic work, and why they created world-renowned art, music, and literature there at the beginning of the 20th century. "Place of Longing Bavaria" is a travel guide that reveals astonishing discoveries beyond the clichés of edelweiss and lederhosen.