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bridge built at the beginning of the twelfth century and it's believed to be the oldest surviving bridge in germany. i mean reagan's work and the various. to be honest the bridge doesn't look that oh that's because it's been completely restored over the past few years after all ransford has a title to defend and since two thousand and six its old town including this bridge has been a unesco world heritage site today i want to get to know regensburg what attract visitors to this unesco world heritage site and what does the constant influx of tourists mean for the city this much is certain it's going to be a journey through two thousand years of history and. we'll also show you nearby belgium book abbey. we'll find out what the growing popularity of cruise ship tourism means for reagan's burg. and we'll catch up with our globe trotter in the

city of kharkiv in columbia. the fact that reagan's berg is such an old and well preserved city is largely thanks to it not having been destroyed in the wars and its importance as an imperial city in path centuries. a testimony to its former significance is the gothic cathedral construction began in the thirteenth century. and the cathedral tells us a lot about that time as the facade also depicts the crueler side of the middle ages. the church vilified jews. this culture shows them suckling from a pig a deliberate insult and humiliation as pigs are considered unclean in judaism.

even so the building as a whole is an impressive monument next to the one in cologne regensburg cathedral is considered to be germany's most extraordinary gothic cathedral. reagan's burg was not only important because it became a bishop seat fairly early on the danube was a significant trade and traffic route and here on its banks in the old town hall the perpetual diet or rice stock was held for over one hundred forty years. to find out more about what that was and what it meant for the city and meeting the director of the reagans birth museums don't. with gas still.

believing that. the us had one exactly was the perpetual diet book from the seventeenth to be early nineteenth century reagan spoke was actually the capital of europe a bit like brussels today. the natural diet was convened in sixteen sixty three just a few years after the thirty years' war. representatives from all countries from all cities gathered here they were supposed to discuss taxes and military issues but the talks then dragged on for so long that they never came to a final agreement and wanted to horror at least not for one hundred forty three years until eighteen zero six years to yachts and the takes the whole not. be instead why was it set up in regensburg things book passion in the several big gatherings had already taken place in american spoken to the city is located on the danube that the one also the emperor was able to travel to vienna along the river

is one that infrastructure was unique and offered short travel times messages could reach the chancery in vienna within three days and vice versa. the next to the infrastructure there was a second key factor namely that reagan's book was an imperial city. that it was not part of the surrounding duchy of the various but was directly subordinate to the emperor and more or less belonged to him it. well lesson of the dog don't hide what the rice talk mean for regen the bird again i know i imagine so many powerful people coming here and money was being spent and of probably brought the city some other perks to. stop over in the to leave as of course pagans book was a prosperous city and an international meeting place. almost every aspect was rented out to diet envoys or to their entourages the city was booming a lot of diplomats held negotiations with other countries here because it was the

shortest distance to travel. in fact then the city had international play so. you don't just get calls my attention to an interesting your all the bird on the wall is standing on one foot and holding a stone in its claw it's meant to remind beyond voice to pay close attention to the debates whoever falls asleep is dropping the ball or here the stone and disturbing the diet. and minutely there is no way for me to know how the envoy spend their free time all those years ago but my guess would be that more than once they found themselves just a couple of kilometers of the river at the danube gorge it's where belt a book common stands it's home to one of germany's oldest breweries and up to this day well worth a visit. the most beautiful reach of a timber takes you across the river through the danube gorge between limestone

walls up to seventy meters high. for the full experience up on it's it is the traditional boats of the danube fisherman. it's all it's good in the world and once upon a time rowing was the only option but no one goes there anymore now we have a motor but we often turn it off to give people the full experience of rooms you can hear the silence it's very special. well you know when you hear nothing you can see a lot. for example you can see the rock formation the three warring brothers. alternatively you could hike. like haiti and have money money for them hiking is not recreation its work the couple runs the small restaurant i know you'd like your style or little hermitage which you can only

reach by foot it's worth the journey the building complex used to be a franciscan monastery founded by a hermit but the unique church has no proper ruth only the cliff which curves overhead. the frescoes with biblical scenes from the sixteenth century. family man found out by chance that the historic hermitage was for sale and turned it into a heritage site. is a wonderful interface enclosure visit beautiful rockwell church had been closed for years so i wanted to put it back in the spotlight and open it to the public thoughts. the first guests arrive early in the morning and are given a tour of the caves right next to the church. as are here you know

who got off from this cave is called gold of and as an alchemy just once lived here these pits in the rocks were carved by hand and housed wooden beams used probably to support a wooden house as. we reach our destination very timber work abbi. an impressive building right on the danube much social here in around the year six hundred seventeen that makes it the oldest monastery in the various. over the years the benedictine monks kept on build. the eighteenth century church owes its splendid to the us some brothers he designed many churches in bavaria. but for many guests the reason they came is the beer garden this has been proved in the ministry for more than one thousand years another reason why more than half a million people come to bet in the abbey every year.

where you're from here. and i know by the promise prayers back there are now from south korea. with very much this was not especially this year. back in the slightly rainy reagan's burg i have an appointment with my ts paetec at the nine five plants he shows me the outlines of the former jewish synagogue. reagan's burg is like many many evil cities if you dig here it's likely you'll discover something in one thousand nine hundred five traces of the two thousand year history of the city were uncovered during construction work on knife up plots . was. connected to this and as you've probably noticed we're underground now what's exciting here is that you can see recognizable old remains to the wall with

a yard that's classical middle ages about seven hundred to eight hundred years old . it's in shock now if you take a step forward and look down over the parapet you see those stone. they may not look that special but they're from roman times two thousand years ago. taos and. over there and if we go through this arc we come to a second seller who gets here. and it's why. it's interesting here is that all the sellers in the documentation center come from the former jewish quarter innovations book sent this. in the next book on. the ins and so what we're seeing here are traces of the jewish families innovations borg. they lived in the city for five hundred years. then that they were the end of the middle ages when reagan's work was an offer and needed a scapegoat exclusion and discrimination of jews and began to increase.

first. it's going to be off and it all culminated in fifteen nineteen when the approximately five hundred people living here were driven out. simply expelled from the city. when. they demolished the abandoned buildings just a few days later probably so that no one would ask what had been there before. and on the resulting square they built a church which is the noise issue. which is why it's called noise or new. above the surface today there's nothing to see of those demolished houses but the sellers are preserved underground. the excavations at nine five plots took three years during which time archaeologists even found a gold treasure the documentation center doesn't have signs or a big means on send the structure can only be accessed on guided visits but don't

let that scare you off it's really worth it it is. time to hop on over to the other side of the pond to meet our globe trotters steve hayes she's been visiting columbia's caribbean coast off we go to got. to start things off here you know we take part in a retreat work to give an overview of your town and all the things he needs to see . katarina was founded in fifteen thirty three by a spanish commander and became the main port for trade between spain and its overseas empire in one thousand nine hundred four the trainers port fortress and other monuments including the walled old town were designated a unesco world heritage site. rather cool thing to do we think of him as two. the

old city wall which is it is especially cool in the afternoon when you have the best light to take some awesome photographs and this is also where you can see the contrast of the old city and the new clothes walk. and how to finish off an afternoon walk on the old city wall that's the copy to my which is probably one of the best spots to watch the sunset. today with row one of our up the coast from asking out so it could do more this is a book and on film was hamas and we're basically here. to take a buffer that. i'm good at it was twenty three meters high and has a depth of two thousand three hundred meters so i mean not that much but you can in general.

we're now walking through neighborhoods where we say ok it's a mining and it's a really cool area it's up and coming neighborhood right next to the old town. have some breakfast you know something in. them bring it about and i would take the motor taxi and then moving. on there are lisa eat. food we write something up there now we're taking. this up stuff for our time in kentucky nice actually a little fishing village street alice out the path enough to get a taste of the local life and to be in a spot which is way less tourist and maybe having fun then mouth. so many responses

for this. the prices for good food straight from the source were low and the beach was simply perfect with nobody trying to sell you souvenirs this was truly a place to enjoy. what have you got in colombia. right next to be a story stonebridge you'll find the votes to cool the sausage kitchen true reagan's very classic in the twelfth century the building was used as a storage room for construction equipment later it was turned into an eatery and since the beginning of the nineteenth century it's where reagan's burns most famous bratwurst or charcoal grills sausages are made.

to have been told that your restaurant isn't to be missed what's so special about it must be some focus on this as one sequentially here also suggests which we make plus some khattala which we also make ourselves. couch six on sauerkraut is the name of this typical dish simple but really good and just right if you're feeling peckish on your tour. after being declared a unesco world heritage site in two thousand and six the reagans were experienced a full blown tourism boom numbers of visitors have soared ever since and one of the main reasons for that is the growing popularity of river cruises on the dam you some of the locals on the other hand aren't too enthusiastic about their newfound fame. in summer of two thousand and six the old town of

hagen's book becomes a unesco world heritage site time for its fantastic i hope for this for a long time of the flood. there were euphoric celebrations in the city. you know we did it to the world heritage status is a rare distinction but today. god said it will share are happy for you and we were proud that things have gotten out of hand like this also ought to know what nobody every wanted to be a world heritage site because nobody really thought about the consequences we just wanted to get in the tourist brochures and there was a big boom back then what's going to be at first it was nice to see so many people come but now it's turned a little bit like it is going to. cause some of the conspirators the on still it has become too much. the city continues to attract masses.

every year the tourism office and else is new records for overnight stays day trippers and cruise line is his passengers stroll through the old town. if they came they sometimes don't even remember what city they are any by the evening. the number of giant river cruise ships has skyrocketed the danube trip is especially popular among senior american and australian citizens which is great for the city but rather annoying to some locals. who know the many are sick of the roaring diesel engines and the constant coming and going of the water borne hotels. in bali is it's probably can't get much more than this but do we have to reach that maximum point considering what it cost the residents of the one eye if people living over there don't like it either like

almost pushed in. the city recently limited the number of cruise ships to one thousand five hundred landings pay year but the boom since the unesco title has also brought other consequences it's leered investors and new construction projects are shooting up everywhere. real estate prices have exploded and the gentrification of the old town is progressing. to keep you know by the book at the now they also want more guided tours and hotels and while residents hardly live there anymore. there are a few students who like to party but you can't imagine a family or an old couple there anymore although they're being forced out unfortunately even for the things that as a. number of tourists increased again last year but now they can spoke has put forward a new tourism plan which tries to consider both visitors needs and the quality of life of those people who live.

on the banks of the danube during peak season is lined with cruise ships i meet with peter last he has the organization friends of reagan's birds oldtown it's one of the oldest citizens initiatives in germany and as the name implies it's concerned with preserving the city's historical heritage their most recent coup was to prevent the construction of a convention center in the old town to hide from the rain we seek cover in a former royal villa which today houses the varian monument office and was. really worked as a tourist guide and reagan's work what's your take on this tourism boom. i think it's very positive because i experienced the humble beginnings when there were six hundred guided tours in the year and now we have more than six thousand guided tours before it makes me happy every time i walk through the city and see people from all over the world enjoying drakensberg fest and it does do you also understand more critical voices those who say it's too much for regensburg it can

know these voices but i don't quite understand them because as in many cities and tourism here moves along specific paths just as in prague where it goes from the old town square to the charles bridge to prague castle here it's just over the stone bridge to the cathedral to the old town hall to the left and right of this it's called i don't have to walk right through the crowd when it's busy i can also choose a side street and a survey to. tell me a bit about the organization you lead and your work there we kind of pushed it. you know i for one this is friends of the old town is a group that was founded in one thousand nine hundred sixty six and it has no political mandate and no direct power was one bottom up kind of model it's committed to raising the alarm whenever the old town is threatened with any danger you need to fall apart who gave a concrete example was in the early one nine hundred seventy s. when there were plans to build a major road along the danube from one end of the old town to the other under the window and longing for our name into the which we simply held a protest there and prevented it from happening to protest you or not it's just all

for him down the impact you weren't born in reagan's are not you've lived here for a long time what makes regensburg so unique. that's a good question if you're stuck and i have a very strong emotional bond to the city and i feel at home here. for i always have we've been it was like when i stepped off the train in rome the first time and felt i'd been there before your martial law or i'm just now i'm half regular and half roman so to speak in. this city is very much worth living in because it's preserved it's historical structure both in stone and in spirit. the whole world was in reagan's book during the perpetual diet but he comes across this mixture of presidential and cosmopolitan is really something that beautiful. and you're working hard to keep it that way. what would you say to the first time visitor here and i think it's for whether they come by cruise ship or from somewhere else in

germany where would you send them what's your top recommendation. it was under saddam i would put it differently i wouldn't give any tips you know instead i'd recommend just coming here and staying a week and going where the wind takes you. discover the city on foot onto his it's not like there's any other way to get around town and just drift along and let the city work its magic and then follow your interests you know are you looking for gothic architecture in the cathedral or are you after something romantic or do you just want to sit in elegant cafes or experience the beauty of the river or talk about just let it happen. thanks for the talk of. what secrets behind the small. find out the mercy of experience and explore fascinating cultural heritage sites. w.

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