The early medieval town of Bamberg is in northern Bavaria and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
It has one of Europe’s largest intact old town squares and is remarkable due to its distinctive half-timbered old buildings.
Bamberg was originally settled by the Slavs and starting in the 10th century served as a link between central and eastern Europe.
In the 11th century the town’s unique style strongly influenced the architectural development of central Europe.
During the 18th century enlightenment, Bamberg was the home of the philosopher Hegel and ETA Hoffman who wrote The Nutcracker.
The Alte Hofhaltung, or Old Palace, dates from 10th and 11th centuries. The inner courtyard is surrounded by half-timbered buildings with steeply pitched roofs and stunning wooden walkways.
Bamberg is a visual feast!
It is also pleasing to the palate with wonderful restaurants and is famous for its beer! The town has nine breweries, one of which makes an unusual smoky tasting brew, which no, I didn’t try, and neither did my husband which is a surprise because he is the beer aficionado in the family. I guess we’ll just have to go back!
The town is ideal for exploring on foot and full of wonderful surprises at every turn.
Cheers to you from the remarkably beautiful old town of Bamberg~
Beautiful shot,great place !
Thank you kindly & cheers!
This looks amazing! My kind of place. How I’d love to visit it. And the beer is a nice bonus. 🙂
You would sample the beer! I’m impressed! 😉
I would indeed. 🙂
Spoken like a true traveler! 🙂
What a great place to visit and the name Bamberg has a good vibe to it! Power feel to match the cool buildings. Also / the first photo reminded me of MC Escher – and had that illusion feel where it could be flipped and viewed the other way!
Oh, I am a lifelong admirer of Escher so this comment is a real honor. He is simply brilliant!
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This is a visual feast! Thank you for the tour!
It is so much more fun with you along!
..the architectural development of central Europe….the region without earthquakes. Similar places round the world are gone…some of them several times.
True & sad~
Oh, Cindy. Bamberg, Hamburg and Lindau are my favorite places in Germany. Great pictures of the old “Fachwerkhaus Style.”
Isn’t it sumptuous! I want to go back and stay for several months in the fall.
What an amazing place to go!! Thanks for these beautiful pics, Cindy!!
Thank you more for the kind appreciation!
I Love it!!
You and me both! <3
My, you’re a proper gadabout Cindy, never still for a minute. I envy you these fascinating sights and beautiful views.
xxx Massive Hugs xxx
I am home at The Holler and have been for several months now. I still have more posts on Europe percolating though~
This is a beautiful virtual tour. You’re right, Cindy, Bamberg is a visual feast!
Combine this with my love of German food and all is gut fur mich! 😉
So, you combine the visual feast with the food feast! Very nice. Indeed, gut fur dich, Cindy <3
Amazing subject and photographs, I love Bavaria. Germany is so beautiful! Thank you for the photo’s , it’s been many years since I lived there.
So lucky that you had the opportunity! I want to spend about three months renting an apartment in one of these incredible old cities.
I lived for morr than a year in the Moselle Valley. Trier. I travelled quite a bit. I highly recommend. It! 🙂
So beautiful! I will put it on my bucket list which seems to be getting longer as I get older…
That is a good thing! 🙂
Loved the tour Cindy. Thank you!
Wonderful to hear from you Wally and hope all is well!
Wow gorgeous picture and nice history!
The age of the wooden buildings boggles my mind!
Yes amazing! Are you still traveling now cindy? I love these tours we go on with you!!
The photos was breathtaking however the Ist photo was my favorite with its vibrant colors
So kind and so very appreciated!
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well captured once again… 😊 thx for sharing
Thank you more for appreciating!
A lovely town. I like the red or deep orange shade roofs every where. The steep angle of the roof is also interesting to see. Great tour of the place!
I imagine the steep roofs might have been for snow, but they are beautiful too! Wonderful to hear from you and hope all is well with you my friend~
Ah, that is a good explanation about the roof design… Thank you!
Love the crooked angles and the unexpected detours Cindy!
That is a perfect description of walking around Bamberg!
Cindy thank you for posting these awesome photos. 🙂
Thank you more for appreciating them Ranu & cheers to you my friend~
What a total delight to wander through Bamberg with you, Cindy, thanks so much. You did an excellent job of showing and describing the uniqueness and deep history of this wonderful town. And the beer, mmmm, I like smoky teas, and beer; I bet I would love a smoky beer…. 🙂
I bet you would too and so I think you must go, and we must go back and have a taste too! 😉 Be well my friend~
Lovely tour of Bamberg, Cindy! Another place we should visit!
You will be very glad when you do!
How beautiful…..I woulda drunk the beer….
You are spunky Cynthia. It goes with the name……. 😉
This is extraordinary! Thank you very much Cindy. Your pictures are amazing, and I feel much admiration towards people who built those back in time.
Incredible and wonderful isn’t it. I love staying in these old buildiings. They are like time machines~
It is beautiful. I’ll have to try to make it there some day. Great photos, as always!
Thank you and I hope you do visit!
And if I do I’ll make sure to drink some of their beer 😉
Have two please, one for me! 😉
Great photos!
So glad you enjoyed & cheers to you~
Amazing! Thank you for sharing this beautiful post. I especially love the top photo.
So pleased & thank you!
Superb, historical imagery. Bamberg’s architectural splendour pre-dates all of the buildings in my homeland…
Awwww, thank you Russel. It is amazing to be sleeping in buildings where the wood itself is so incredibly old and so many historical generations have lived and slept there before you. It feels like time travel~
The experience will, I’m sure, remain with you long after you return home, Cindy. Enjoy the rest of your trip.
Cindy, these photos are wonderfully brilliant and crisp! Eye candy for sure! Thanks for sharing! Diane
Thank you more for such kind appreciation Diane & cheers to you~
I love medieval towns, they really capture my imagination! This one is a beauty. Thanks for sharing it!
You and I, as usual, are in complete accord! <3
Thanks for the tour.
Thank you more for coming along!
I love the old architecture and imaging the people who lived there. Amazing to me that so much of it still exists – 11th century? That’s…1000 years ago! Right? Am I counting that right? Wow.
It is utterly mind boggling to me too! Incredible.
Oh my goodness it’s beautiful!!! 😊💖😊💖😊💖. And the photo quality is AMAZING!!! ✨💖✨💖✨
You are so kind and so appreciated! <3 <3
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You’re so right about it being a “visual feast,” Cindy! Those roof lines are my favorite, although all the architecture is pretty amazing. Thank you for satisfying my armchair wanderlust! 🙂
One can travel through multiple universes with their mind alone. It is by far the best traveling machine! <3
Another wonderful collection, Cindy. Smokey beer, huh? Sounds interesting. Lovely photos!
I am a party pooper for not having some I know, but I am not a big drinker~
Wow looks like a fantastic place to visit! Gorgeous! Hugz Lisa and Bear
Hugs back to you guys and happy weekend too!
Your photographs are beautiful!
You are very kind.
If I were a swallow, I would nest above that pink roof garden and call it my room with a view.
You are a very smart bird Brenda, but we already knew that……
LOL Why, thank you!
Fantastic photos — very interesting and gorgeously taken!
So motivating and thoughtful! Thank you~
I love towns like this. My very first trip to Europe was to the city of Rothenburg ob der Tauber. I loved it. 🙂
Yes we stayed in an ancient old place in Rothenburg. So very wonderful and wonderful to hear from you dear Fae. Hope all is well and know you have some awesome travel planned!
Thanks for the mini tour. Bamberg seems to be quintessentially European with the narrow lanes, closely built homes and interesting architecture. I think they’re so smart to continue to keep all the roofs the same colour too, what a view. 10th Century hey? It’s amazing to think how much history has walked through their square. I love it.
It is like the entire town is one incredible, priceless work of art, where people work, live and play. It is very special. So glad you came over for a tour my friend and hope you are not missing Maui too much now that you are back in the snow!
Wow! Fantastic photographs and I love the colored roofs. Just lovely.
The care and craftmanship from long ago cannot be found today can it? It is our loss. So pleased you noticed the roofs. I am big on old European roofs.
Absolutely beautiful historical place, thank you for this lovely, fantastic tour and wonderful images Cindy!
It is my honor that you enjoyed. Thank you & cheers too~
Love these pictures! It’s like turning back time…could walk there for hours. Thanks for the opportunity to tag along 🙂
You are a wonderful traveling companion my friend and I would follow you anywhere!
Beautiful photographs Cindy! I remember Bamberg! Who could forget?
Exactly! I bet you tried the smoky beer too didn’t you!
I’m always struck by how colorful and ornate the buildings out there in Europe are – whether they are old and ancient or new and freshly painted. I don’t think I’ll ever grow tired of viewing them. What great variety in these selection of photos! Thanks for sharing Cindy. ~Lynn
Yes, not all the beige, grey and glass so prevalent in too many of our cities. I could never tire of them either Lynn. I hope you are fully recovered now and out with your hummingbirds who I know missed you!
Yes, I’m better Cindy and managed to help my mom with the hummingbird feeders again. 🙂 And yep, I often find myself the odd-person-out when it comes to appreciating our cities. I recall being in SF’s Union Square one day, looking up past the tall grey buildings to see the patch of blue sky… and thinking, ‘I know what my childhood guinea pig companions were seeing when I opened the top of their cages so they could look up at the sky.’ (No offense to anyone who likes cities… Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, as they say!)
I love the window shutters and flower pots as well as the beautiful roof tiling. So different to what I see here. Beautiful shots as always, Cindy. 🙂
Flowers in the window pots, cheerily colored shutters, and steep tiled roofs. So completely charming, I agree!
I wish we had buildings like that around here, and not just at EPCOT lol Lovely, Cindy! Thank you so much for sharing 🙂
Laughing, I hear you. I was in Vegas once in The Venetian and heard a person say to his wife, “No need to go to Italy now that we’ve been here!” He was serious too!
You can’t fix stupid lol
Beautiful pictures. I love the architecture in that part of Germany and you captured them brilliantly! Thank you!
Thank you & Happy Sunday Christopher!
Cozy little town! ღゝ◡╹)ノ♡
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Atmosphere oozing from every crevice, Cindy 🙂 Gorgeous shots!
Merci beaucoup mon ami! <3
Einfach Klasse, meine Freundin…
Danke mein Freund und glucklich Sonntag!
Lovely city. Another one to put on my list.
You will be glad you added it & cheers to you Marie~
Beautiful place, with beautiful colors. I liked so much the blue river and the red roofs.
The rivers and rooftops make the whole town look like pictures in a storybook!
I like your posts(I do watch,I can watch if want)
I am very pleased you enjoyed & thank you!
Thank,I can watch if want
Spectacular town and pictures…
It is quite a remarkable place and I am happy you enjoyed the photo tour~
Always a pleasure to see continental Europe with all its colours. 🙂
So many beautiful places to see in our little world. Happy Sunday Graham~
And you too. 🙂
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Cindy, thanks for taking me along on this visual tour of Bamburg. Very beautiful!
Traveling with you makes the trip more fun!
Ha! M’lady and I recently signed for a bike and barge tour late this Spring starting in Bamberg and traveling east along the Main to end in Miltenberg. Thanks for the intro!
Oh my, you will have a stupendous experience! Miltenberg is delightful. You will see many of these incredible medieval towns and you will be so glad you went! I cann’t wait to hear about your trip and see your photos. I am excited for you and I get to travel vicariously with you!
Wonderful photos! Thanks for coming past my place. 😉
Visa versa 2 U X 2 & cheers 2! 😎
Bamberg is full of intricate and fascinating “nooks and crannies,” Cindy! I was really enjoying the haphazard way the buildings were built with no semblance of straight lines for streets! My brother had a stout beer which tasted like chocolate made in Instanbul, Turkey while he visited this weekend at a Greek restaurant called Opa’s. We later were at a bar and the owner who is in his 40’s stopped by to say he recognized us. We told him we really liked his restaurant’s food. We both had had gyro platters, my brother made with chicken, mine with lamb, traditional meat. I know he would love touring Europe and trying the beers. . . He is an artist and has traveled across the US, Mexico, Canada and we were in Spanish H.S. Club do were blessed with Portugal and Spain in our lifetime, so far! 🙂 Beautiful post, as always a delightful tour!
So glad you enjoyed and your brother and you sound like you have a close relationship and wonderful memories, which I know is a source of strength and joy for you both. Cheers to you Robin & be well my friend~
Beautiful series
Thanks much & cheers too~
Looks ‘fairytale’ beautiful, Cindy. 🙂
Thank you and that is exactly what it was!
You find some of the most fascinating places Cindy.
I would say we both do this Pauline! <3
I’m slowing down now Cindy, do not get overseas any more, so that is why I really enjoy your posts.
I hear you and I empathize, but if you call your travel now slow, than I wonder what you did when you traveled more quickly! 😉 <3 You have an awesome adventurous life and I love traveling vicariously all over Austrlia and New Zealand with you Pauline. <3
Thanks for sharing your visit to a beautiful place. The photos are stunning!
Awwww, so kind and so appreciated! Thank you~
Indeed it’s a visual feast! Those houses look awfully crowded in. 🙂
Yes, often sharing ancient walls.
Amazing! 🙂
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Hugs & gratitude to you Sally for your thoughfulness~ <3
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Cindy, that first photo is truly magical! Bamberg is architecturally and atmospherically beautiful. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the history of the town as well. :o)
So pleased you enjoyed and thank you for the lovely comments!
;o) My pleasure, Cindy.
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fascinating. I’d never heard of Bamberg before.
It’s is a hidden and truly precious gem! Thank you Judith for your kindness & Happy Monday my friend~
How uniquely beautiful and interesting.
Thank you and I think those two adjectives perfectly describe Bamberg!
Thanks for this visit. Bamberg Cathedral holds a special place in my memory as having the most exotic High Gothic sculptures to be seen.
Yes, I agree with you Hilary! The horse and the story around it were fascinating and I was enthralled with the light fixtures~
Those buildings are amazingly well-preserved. There are some very red roofs. I’ve never seen such bright roofing tiles. I wonder if they’re locally produced.
I imagine they are quite old. The rooftops in medieval towns always fascinate me. Prague stands out in this category, but Bamberg has these muti-level fascinations. One persons roof is anothers garden. I love the visual depth. It does remind me of Escher, it is so complex.
Fan-TAS-tic! Magnificent photography. I love the architecture and all the bright colors. What a treat. Thank you for sharing. Now I want to go there. <3
Oh, good! I really hope you do go. First of all you will love it and secondly I want to see and hear about it. If I am not there, I want someone else to be and post about it! <3
Oh, it is absolutely beautiful Cindy. I particularly like all the red rooves and the higgledy-piggledy placement of the buidlings 😉
The higgledy-piggledy really appeals to me too. It just oozes charm and invites exploration. One feels compelled to follow along the crooked streets and hopefully get hopelessly lost because that is when you really find wonderful things. I love the rooftops too. So pleased you enjoyed and thank you~
Absolutely beautiful, dear Cindy… excellent gallery… . 🙂
All the best to you!, Aquileana 😀
And to you. I was thinking about you and got curious. Are you a student/grad student in Buenos Aires? Are you pursuing Classical Studies? I am so impressed whenever I visit your blog and your posts seem scholarly. Be well my friend~
Hi dear Cindy… I had a classical Orientation in Arts and Literature when I was in High School… Then I studied Laws at College… But I have been interested in this subjects since my very first approaches… sending much love and wishing you the best. Aquileana 🎇 ~
You are a natural scholar, the best kind in the world. <3
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I think I was there once before…, in another life, Cuz. It’s a beautiful city. 🙂
Deja Vu! I had that when I was a little kid on the north rim of the Grand Canyon. Had no idea what it was. You picked a good place to have it with cuz~
Cindy– glorious photos! How have I never heard of Bamberg?? Putting it on my list… My favorite picture is the last one- the stately church interior. Beautiful.
I am pleased you added Bamberg to your list. You will be very glad that you did and cheers to you Rhanoda!
I like smoked beer and smoked ham
I was stupid not to try the smoked beer and I love smoked ham. I will just have to go back! Darn….. 😉 😉
The smoked beer taste as good with thin slices of prague ham 🙂
Ooooh, that does sound delicious!
Gorgeous!! I really want to go to Germany!
I hope you do, you will love it and I will love seeing your photos and hearing about it!
Unas fotos preciosas!!
Muchas gracias. Eres muy amable. Saludos a usted y gracias por parar cerca! <3
ich liebe Bamberg, alles Gute von mir
Auch ich liebe Bamberg ! So froh, dass Sie auch tun und Jubel fur Sie!
möge es ein guter Tag werden
Ein wunderschoner Tag fur Sie mein Freund!
It is very quaint & picturesque in Bamberg! Your first shot is outstanding & I love, love the old palace. I can totally see the period gowns on the old wooden walkway!
I could see a ballroom filled with your glorious dresses Resa. What a dream!
The colors, textures, and designs created in old cities are like elements of fine art paintings.The colors and contrast of the first picture are wonderful. Nice photos!
Thank you so much and I agree with you, these old towns are like walking into living fine art! Cheers to you~
So beautiful.
Like a dream come true! <3
Reminds me a bit of Alsace in France. I would to go to Bamberg, adore old villages and towns
I love Alsace and I love the mix of French and German food. Heavenly!
I dined at some amazing restaurants in Riquewihr
Beautiful pictures of beautiful places, Cindy. Just lovely. 🙂 — Suzanne
So happy you enjoyed and it makes me glad I posted!
As usual fantastic subject matter in your brilliant photos.
The angles in the composition of these photos I find really pleasing.
Your post ‘Cindy’s Nonsense of Snow’ post mentioning Smilla, I think you left ‘no’ out of the title.
Because they really are no nonsense beautiful photos.
I wondered where you got all your statistics from.
How does that saying go ‘Behind every woman is on strong man.’ 🙂
Your blog is a pleasure. _/\_
Visa versa 2 U X 2 Jack. It is always such a pleasure to hear from you and a joy to find a new post from you! Be well my friend~
Yes 2×2=4 if this was tennis doubles the score would be 40 love. 🙂
<3 x 40! 😉
the color saturation,composition and texture is delicious…Yuuuummm…
You are very kind and most appreciated!
So are u Cindy..haven’t seen u around much lately??
I don’t know how we lost track. This happens with wordpress. You are a very gifted photographer. I am off to your site now.
goddess bless u for saying so Cindy…it means so much❤️😍
It is just the truth my friend and be well! <3
These are fascinating photos – and especially of interest to me, as I just returned from a few weeks in Europe on business…and Munich was one of my stops and I spent a little time in the amazing Bavarian countryside and alps. Miss the beerhalls… 🙂 If you ever need a baggage-boy to help you with your bags when you travel, ahem, I think I could do quite well 🙂
Cheers to you!
I thought you had said you were going to Germany. The countryside must have been so lovely in the snow. I cannot wait to see your photos and hear about your experiences. It is so interesting to travel virtually with you Randall. You make the very best traveling companion! Be well my friend and looking forward to your post(s)!
Incredible…fell in love with the land and the people (and may be their beer as well!).
I can relate because I keep going back!
Fabulous photos Cindy. I love Unesco heritage sites. I believe I was at one in China in 2001, and I live just 2 hour drive from one as well, Ouro Preto. I will be going there Tuesday fo Carnaval.
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Oh how fabulous! Lucky you~
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Bamberg is so wonderful. I like it 🙂
I do too!!! <3
These are beautiful and nostalgic.
I wonder of the wonders that you bring to us.
So, celebrate valentine’s day.
All the best. 🙂
Shiva
Thank you Shiva and Happy Valentine’s Day my friend! <3
Your photographs are great and greatly needed relief from almost all the other images set before us every day.
Yes, we have too many images assaulting us in the media, and need refuge in all the beauty in the world that receives too little attention. Thank you my friend for seeing this and be well~
I don’t like being repetitive, but once again you have taken me on a journey through amazing photos from the confines of my bed. Thank you!
Awwww, makes posting so worthwhile! <3 Cheers to you and thank you too~
Just watched an art programme which mentioned the wonderful Gothic equestrian statue in the church in Bamberg.
Also wondered if there had been a connection with Bamburgh in Northumberland, UK, through trade, perhaps….
Thanks for following my posts. Look forward to your next interesting observations.
Yes, the horse is quite famous and still there thankfully. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a connection. Europe was interconnected and mutually influential an incredibly long time ago. It is amazing really, especially to an American like me who is simply gobsmacked by the buildings and the stories they tell from so very long ago.
This is such a romantic place and lovely to see again. The only time I was there was for a music gig my husband had. It was the last and probably “the last’ time we were out drinking tequila and dancing till 4am. Good memories!
Wonderful to hear from you Wendy! Drinking tequila and dancing till 4am with you husband in Bamberg does sound like a memory of a lifetime and it is good that you CAN even remember it! 😉 😉 <3
Grazie mille Silvia დ