Trail Name: Sentiero del Malvasia
Trail Type:
Mid-distance; paved in the urban area, dirt, loam or grass in other parts; somewhat maintained, but the route itself is not well marked.
Length: Total – 10 kilometers/ 6 miles
Convenient to: Asti, or Casale Monferrato, Italy
Marking:
Rectangular sign with red and white stripes overwritten “2” (or not)
Trail Name: Rieslingtour (AKA: Weinwanderrundweg 10)
Trail Type: Short distance circuit; much is paved, some hard-packed earth, some stairs: well maintained, but the route itself is only fairly marked.
Length: Total: @8 kilometers/ 5 miles
Convenient to: Bad Duerkheim, Neustadt or Mannheim, Germany
Marking: A “10” in black, on a round white background
Trail Name: The Way of Saint James (Chemin de Saint Jacques de Compostelle)
Trail Type: Long distance; much of it paved (in this section), well maintained, and fairly well marked.
Length:
Total – Approximately 2000 kilometers (to reach Santiago de Compostela, Spain, from northern Alsace)
Segment – 7.5 kilometers/ @4.5 miles
Convenient to: Colmar, Alsace, France
Marking:
“Chemin de Saint Jacques de Compostelle” (Stylized cockleshell of yellow rays on a blue background)
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Trail Name: Urban Wine Route (Rota Urbana do Vinho)
Trail Type: Short distance, meandering walk, set in an urban environment. The route itself is not marked directionally, but does include distinctive explanation markers at many of the relevant monuments.
Length: Total: Circa 5 kilometers/ circa 3 miles
Convenient to: Porto, Portugal
Marking: Square metal plaques embedded in the sidewalk by sites on the itinerary
Trail Name: Le Loejele (part of the trail series “Circuits de Bacchus”)
Trail Type: Medium distance circuit; partly paved, partly packed earthen trail surface; mostly well maintained; the route itself is marked very well.
Length: total: 14.6 kilometers/9 miles
Marking: Trace of a ring in yellow, with a white interior
Trail Name: Stadtwanderweg 5
Trail Type: Mid-distance; almost exclusively paved with paving stone or tarmac, well maintained, and very well-marked.
Length: Total: 10.3 kilometers/ 6.3 miles
Convenient to: Vienna, Austria
Marking: (Mostly) Wooden signs with the words: Stadtwanderweg 5
Trail Name: Not named officially
Trail Type: Short distance circuit; paved in the village, loose stone, and uneven, rocky and earthen surfaces otherwise. (These are mostly dry, and can be slippery in places). The trail is somewhat maintained, but the route itself is neither named nor consistently marked.
Length: Total: (Approximately) 6.5 kilometers/ 4 miles
Convenient to: Orange, or Avignon, France
Marking: Initially red and yellow rectangular lines, then blue dots and/or yellow rectangular lines.
Trail Name: Ortenauer Weinpfad (OWP)
Trail Type: Long distance; almost exclusively paved or hard-packed earth, well maintained, very well-marked.
Length: Total: 101 kilometers/ 62.75 miles
Convenient to: Baden-Baden (north) and Offenburg (south), Germany
Marking: Blue grapes on a red diamond on a white background
Trail Name: Circuit Viticole Transfrontalier (French) / Grenzuberschreitender Rundweg durch die Weinberge (German)
Trail Type: Short distance circuit; almost exclusively paved, well maintained, extremely well marked.
Length: total: 7 kilometers/ 4.3 miles
Convenient to: Karlsruhe and Landau, Germany
Marking: Red circle on white rectangular background
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Trail Name: Wein.weg
Trail Type: Short distance circuit; almost exclusively paved, well maintained, and well-marked albeit with successively different path numbers.
Length: Approximately 9.5 kilometers / 5.9 miles
Convenient to: Bozen/Bolzano, Italy
Marking: Red and white markings with black numbers for paths 12, 12a, and 3 (Seerundweg)
