degrimm1-9, Exercise 2: History and marketing on the route

Model answer (check the details of the route):

A tourist route is built to attract visitors, so places are included when they have a real link to the brothers (such as the towns where they were born, studied or worked) and also when they have a link to a tale or legend that is looser or invented (such as a town that has adopted a character). Both kinds sit side by side on the same signs.

Two questions a visitor can ask:
1. What documents or buildings link this place to the brothers or to a tale: a birth record, a house they lived in, a museum with their papers, or only a story and a statue?
2. When was the connection first claimed, and by whom: in the brothers' own time, in a later local history, or in the modern tourism campaign?

A firm link has a dated source; a marketing link usually does not (check each case).