Where is franconia

Be warned: This is a tour via audio guide for English speakers for those who care deeply about hops and copper vats. Today the city is perhaps best known for its connections to events bracketing WW2: the huge Nazi Party rallies held here before the war and the trials of Holocaust perpetrators afterwards.

Having acquired that context, visitors can then stand amid what remains of the hulking arenas and imposing stands pictured above where the Nazi faithful gathered in enormous numbers to listen to Hitler speak. Surreally, the property is used for car races and rock concerts today. To complete the circle, drop into the Nuremberg Palace of Justice , where Nazi leaders were put on trial for war crimes in a series of proceedings that started in Courtroom , where the first tribunal was held, is open to the public on days when court is not in session.

Precise rules govern the making of both: Sausages can be no longer than 9 cm 3. Nuremberg gingerbread, which is much softer and cake-like than the man- or house-shaped varieties you might be envisioning, is always baked on a communion wafer and always has nuts. Where to try these delicacies? You can also get three sausages on a bun with mustard from street vendors. In short, the cultural borders are a bit fuzzy around the edges.

People have a tendency to pronounce t like d, p like b and sometimes k like g. This is also often noticeable when they speak foreign languages. English prevalence is around the West German average with a high number of speakers in the big cities and university towns like Erlangen.

Other foreign languages include French the most common living second foreign language in high school and to a lesser degree Italian and Spanish. There is less frequent service to Coburg.

Erlangen also has some ICE service which often also stops in Nuremberg. The infrequent ICE service to Bayreuth has been stopped and there isn't any long distance train service forthcoming until the line gets electrified.

From Dresden there is regional service to Hof with connecting services scheduled to wait at the same platform to make changing trains easy to Nuremberg. Connections due east to the Czech Republic are unfortunately in a bad state and none of them is electrified.

You'll often be faster taking a bus, especially if your final destination is Prague. Cheb is however reachable relatively easily by train. The only relevant airport within this region from a traveler's point of view is in Nuremberg NUE IATA with service to many destinations around Europe and connecting service via Frankfurt Airport all around the world.

The airport has seen a few carriers establish bases there in the mid to late s and low cost carriers offer a pretty wide range of European destinations from NUE. In many cases flying to Frankfurt and connecting by train is less hassle where no direct flight is available. Unfortunately the Munich airport is far away from town and you will have to first get into Munich roughly half an hour to forty minutes travel time before you can change onto a train to Nuremberg, unless you go by car or bus.

While Prague airport PRG IATA is geographically close the worse than average train connection the bus is actually faster when going to Nuremberg make this not the best option for most travellers. Several bus companies operate throughout the region. They are usually slower than the train but often cheaper. An international bus operated by Deutsche Bahn also connects Nuremberg leaving right in front of the main station with Prague. For domestic buses within Germany see long distance bus travel in Germany.

While single local tickets can be comparably expensive, group and day tickets can be a bargain, especially for longer distances. It is made from the pork's shoulder meat. Franconian Switzerland, square kilometer for square kilometer, has more private breweries than any other region of the world. Then continue on to Bayreuth, and witness the Aktien Brewery maturing their beer in year old catacombs. If the Aktien Brewery catacombs made you hungry, try some Franconian sausages!

On the road between Bayreuth and Bamberg lies Coburg , the best place to dine on regional sausages. Also take in the Veste Coburg , a 13th-century fortress above the city, in which Martin Luther took refuge during the year of In Bamberg is one of the most strangely designed town halls in all of Bavaria, the Altes Rathaus.

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