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~
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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