Füssen is a town in Bavaria, Germany, in the district Ostallgäu. The River Lech flows into the Forggensee. It had been a settlement in Roman times on the "Via Claudia Augusta",a road that leads southwards to northern Italy and northwards to the former regional capital of the Roman province called "Castra Augusta" today Augsburg. The original name was Foetibus (Latinized German origin for foot).
The Hohes Schloss (High Castle), the former summer residence of the prince bishops of Augsburg and one of Swabia's largest and best preserved late gothic castle complexes, is Füssen's landmark. Today the schloss houses a branch gallery of the Bavarian State Collections of Paintings, which focuses on late gothic and Renaissance works of art. Below the Hohes Schloss is the baroque complex of the former Benedictine Monastery of St. Mang, whose history goes back to the 9th century.
The famous castles of Neuschwanstein and Hohenschwangau are located near the town. The town is also familiar to travelers as the terminus of the Romantic road. Steve McQueen's motorcycle stunts and many other scenes in The Great Escape were filmed in and around the town.