Regensburg

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Regensburg

Regensburg is a city in Bavaria with around 150,000 inhabitants. Regensburg's old town with Stadtamhof has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage since 2006. Regensburg is located at the northernmost point of the Danube and at the confluence of the Naab and Regen rivers with the Danube. There are two Danube islands in the city area.

In general, the year 179 AD, in which the Roman legionary camp Castro Regina was established under Emperor Marc Aurel, is considered the year the city was founded, but the area of today's city was already inhabited around 5000 BC. Regensburg is one of the very few cities in Germany that were continuously populated even after the collapse of the Roman Empire. Regensburg is extraordinarily rich in historical monuments, starting with Roman antiquity buildings such as the Porta Preatoria or the remains of the fortification wall of the Roman legionary camp, and also especially with numerous medieval buildings such as the Stone Bridge, Gothic buildings such as the Regensburg Cathedral and more recent buildings . The millennia-long importance of the city is evident here, first as the seat of the military administration and army of the province of Raetia in the Roman Empire, later as the first Bavarian capital under the Agilolfingers, finally as one of the largest and richest cities in medieval Europe and later, from 1593 as Seat of the Imperial Diet and from 1663 to 1803 as the seat of the Perpetual Diet of the Holy Roman Empire.

Today Regensburg impresses with the largest contiguous medieval old town north of the Alps, an ensemble that can be found not even remotely anywhere else in Germany. Above all, there is life and hustle and bustle in Regensburg in the squares and in the old streets that you can otherwise only find south of the Alps, a variety of small shops, cafes and restaurants under old vaults, in courtyards and on public squares, a City with a Mediterranean lifestyle in the middle of Bavaria.