Bamberg Frankish Rome is called, not only because it stands on seven hills, but because in the shade of the Bamberg cathedral the breath of sacred power blows through the streets of Bamberg. Who more exactly looks, nevertheless, will recognize that it concerns near Bamberg, actually, three towns in the city. To the spiritual center, the cathedral town, the civil town on an island between the arms of the Regnitz river and the town of gardeners, to the economic quarter of the city. Now these three areas form the real Old Town.

Worldwide fame attained the Old Town ensemble with the absorption in 1993 in the UNESCO list of the world cultural heritage. Bamberg is a whole piece of art, a picture book of the architecture. In Bamberg the leverage and town planning developments of the centuries has kept like in no other city. All the same whether Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance or baroque, the different epochs are to be read in Bamberg like tree-rings in a tree.

With approx. 70,000 residents Bamberg is to Bayreuth the 2-biggest city in Upper Franconia, busy center of the city is the area along the green market as well as the Max-place since the Middle Ages, where weekdays close packed the situations of the vegetables farmers stand.

To attend and presumably mostly takes photos in Bamberg is Small Venice, a half-timbered ensemble from fishing houses on the right shore of the left arm of the Regnitz river is between the lower bridge and the Markus's bridge.

Bamberg lies exceptionally transport-for a good price at the Main which is navigable to Bamberg from nature and about the Main Danube channel goods from Bamberg are carried till the Black Sea. With the connection with the A73 to Erlangen, Fürth and Nuremberg, as well as about the A70 to Schweinfurt and Bayreuth Bamberg lies in the interchange of important major roads. In the long-distance traffic Bamberg lies with the north - the south - distance Leipzig-Nuremberg and is started by INTERCITY EXPRESS as well as by EC/IC pulls. While the connection runs in the direction of Berlin currently above Saalfeld and Jena, it will run after completion of the quick distance Nuremberg-Erfurt probably from 2020 over Erfurt. Three sections cross or begin in Bamberg:

A long tradition in Bamberg has the beer brewery. Some people state, three rivers float it by Bamberg. The right arm of river Regnitz, the left arm of river Regnitz and the beer. However, it would be idle, here try to install the gray theory on the Bamberg beer and to describe how deliciously it tastes. Here only finally a serious-meant council. Go to Bamberg and drink it. Cheers!