Thematic cycle routes and also cycle routes that take famous personalities as a topic are popular. Thus it is no wonder, that after Mozart now also Pope Benedikt XVI got his own cycle route - the Benedict Cycle Route. It is 224 kilometres in length and leads along the pope’s biographical stations through the southeast Bavarian Alpine foothills between the rivers Inn and Salzach. Pedalling along one can learn something about the pope. The circuit starts and ends in the place of pilgrimage Altötting. You start suitably at the Pope’s Lime Tree, which Pope Johannes Paul II planted in 1980. The way across Benedictine country leads to art-historically important cloisters and baroque pilgrimage churches, to towns steeped in history and to Joseph Ratzinger’s birthplace in Marktl am Inn. His residence in Tittmaning and Aschau am Inn are also part of the route as is his school in Traunstein, which in addition offers a Traunstein Benedict Path. There one should dismount from the bike and stroll by foot on the paths of the pope’s youth.