Wurzburg
Würzburg was the highlight of our Summer 2009 trip to Germany. Würzburg is located in Franconian Wine Country and home to the Marienberg Fortress and the baroque Residenz. Though we only spent a few short days in Würzburg, I thought it worth featuring prominently on the site. You can find all of my Würzburg pictures linked below.
Juliusspital Wine Cellar in Würzburg, Germany
Our last afternoon in Germany was spent touring the Juliusspital wine cellar in Würzburg.
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350 Years of Silvaner in Franconia
We started our second day in Würzburg by walking down to the Alte Brücke to find a bakery for breakfast. As we walked down the riverfront, Marienberg came into focus and we could see that there were balloons on the vines in front of the fortress. As we got closer to the old bridge we could hear music and a loud speaker announcing the start of a festival celebrating the 350th Anniversary of Silvaner in Franconia.
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Evening in Würzburg
After exploring the Marienberg fortress we walked back down to central Würzburg and went through the city center before stopping for dinner in the plaza behind the Frauenkirche.
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Würzburg's Festung Marienberg
Würzburg, the capital of Unterfranken, is a larger city on the Main river in western Bavaria. Würzburg was our final stop in Germany on this trip and it was a nice change of pace. After spending the previous five days in a Munich hostel and a brewery guest house in Bamberg, we arrived at the ritzy four star Maritim Hotel near the University of Würzburg. Würzburg, unlike Bamberg and Munich, isn't a beer town - it's surrounded by vineyards... but more on that later.
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