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standing above the dam over on the shore you can see the beautiful old town and this bridge is the stone bridge built at the beginning of the twelfth century it's believed to be the oldest surviving bridge and germany. i mean reagan's and the area to be honest the bridge doesn't look that old that's because it's been completely restored over the past few years after all right ensberg has a title to defend 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 reagan's one 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 abu.

we'll find out what the growing popularity of cruise ship tourism means for reagan's work. and world catch up with our globe trotter in the city of kharkiv in colombia. the fact that reagan's burg 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 past 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 ring and for a cathedral is considered to be germany's most extraordinary gothic cathedral. reagan's berg was not only important because it became a bishop seed 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 with. food. to find out more about what that was and what it meant for the city i'm

meeting the director of the reagans bird museums dogless care still. leaving. us at what exactly was the perpetual diet book from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century reagan spoke was actually the capital of europe a bit like brussels today but that was the natural diet was convened in sixteen sixty three just a few years after the thirty years rule. the 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 went to the horror at least not for one hundred forty three years until eighteen zero six yes tim your thoughts on that takes the whole not. we instead why wasn't set up in regensburg things book passion in the several big

gatherings had already taken place in the reagan spoke to the city is located on the danube the door now so the emperor was able to travel to vienna along the river this 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 hagen'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. because it so he. i must have a daughter what did the rice tag mean for reagan to get i know i imagine so many powerful people coming here and money was being spent and that probably brought the city some other perks to. a stop over in the to leave of course pagan's 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 but a lot of diplomats held negotiations with other countries here because it was the shortest distance to travel. in fact then the city had an international flavor. that so. called my attention to an interesting new york the bird on the wall is standing on one foot and holding a stone in its claw it's meant to remind the envoys to pay close attention to the debates whoever falls asleep is dropping the ball or here the stone and disturbing the diet. admittedly 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 val to the book 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 thousand book abbey takes you across the river through the danube coach between limestone walls up to seventy meters high. for the full experience hop on it's it is the traditional dose of the danube fisherman. it's all it's good in good world and once upon a time of rowing was the only option but no one does that 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. 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 it's work because all runs the small

restaurant 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 the unique church has no proper roof only the cliff which curves of a head. the frescoes with biblical scenes from the sixteenth century. hammond the man found out by chance that the historic hermitage was for sale and turned it into a heritage site. because the window screen of his 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. this was.

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 oven 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. we reach our destination veteran book abbey. an impressive building right on the danube money settled here and around the years six hundred seventeen that makes it the oldest monastery in the very. over the years the benedictine monks kept on building the abbey. the eighteenth century church owes its splendid to the us some brothers who designed many churches in bavaria. but for many guests the reason they came is the beer garden beer has been brewed in the monastery for more than one thousand

years another reason why more than half a million people come to a better mood abbi every year. where you from new. york on the line of fire promise prayer years back there are now we are from south korea from busan the good the very much this was not just by. sure. back in the slightly rainy reagan's burg i have an appointment with my ts paetec at the nine five flats 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 . were. seen. as you've

probably noticed were underground now what's exciting here is that you can see recognizable old remains to the wall with the yard that's classical middle ages about seven hundred to eight hundred years old. to. its internship 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 tauzin. and if we go through this arc we come to a second seller who gets here. and. what is interesting here is that all the sellers in the documentation center come from the former jewish quarter in reagan's book since there's anything. in the book on. museums 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 impoverished and needed a scapegoat exclusion and discrimination of jews began to increase. their first. it all culminated in fifteen nineteen when the approximately five hundred people living here were driven out. simply expelled from the city using the. better they demolished the abandoned buildings just a few days later probably so that no one would ask what had been there before next . day and on the resulting square they built a church which is the noise. which is why it's called noise or new. plots. above the surface today there's nothing to see of those demolished houses but the sellers are preserved underground. the excavations at nine five to three

years during which time archaeologists even found a gold treasure the documentation center doesn't have signs or a big mess on send the structure can only be accessed on guided visits but don't let that scare you off it's really worth it. time to hop on over to the other side of the pond to meet our globe trotters steve haney she's been visiting colombia's caribbean coast off we go. to start things off here and. we take part in our reach work to give an overview of your town and all the things he needs to see your. country 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 train is port fortress and

other monuments including the walled old town were designated a unesco world heritage site. other cool things are doing to him as to walk your old city wall which is it is especially cool in the afternoon when you have the best light to take some awesome photographs and it's also where you can see the contrast of the old city and the new book spot. and how to finish off an awesome walk on the old city walls as they copy them our which is probably one of the best spots to watch the sunset. today we drove one hour up the coast from happy now to. this is a book and on film with hamas member basically here. take it off and it. can it's twenty three meters high and has a depth of two thousand three hundred meters so i mean not that much but you can

generally. come up. when i walk a certain neighborhood where we're staying get some ice and it's a really cool area it's the up and coming neighborhood right next to the old town. and some breakfast you know something out. there with the bus and then we take a motor taxi and me going on there are. leak. the be right but somehow longer now we're taking. this step stuff. our timing could not be nice actually you know

a little fishing village three hours south of me enough to get a taste of the local life and to be in a spot with wait less tourists and getting on them off so many can spot for that. 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 done in colombia. right next to be a story stonebridge you'll find the votes to cool the sausage kitchen true reagan's bird 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 bergs most famous

bratwurst or charcoal grills sausages are made. just. a young girl i've been told that your restaurant isn't to be missed what's so special about it must be from focus on this as once eventually here i also suggest which we make plus some of khattala which we also make ourselves. our couch six on sauerkraut is the name of this typical dish simple but really good and just right if you're feeling packaged on your tour. after being declared a unesco world heritage site in two thousand and six reckons work experience 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 new found fame. in summer of two thousand and six the old town of hagan's book becomes a unesco world heritage site time for its fantastic i hope for this for a long time of the first when. they were euphoric celebrations in the city. you know we did it to the world heritage status is a rare distinction but today. god says it will share are happy for you and we were proud that things have gotten out of hand also ought to be what nobody every wanted to be a world heritage site nobody really thought about the consequences we just wanted to get in the tourist brochures and there was a big boom back then was 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. put some of the workers the own stores has become

too much. the city continues to attract masses. every year the tourism office and else is new records for overnight stays day travis 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 of. 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. the many are sick of the roaring diesel engines and the constant coming and going of the hotels. you can buy these it's probably can't get much more than this but do

we have to reach that maximum point considering what it costs residents who didn't want to if people living over there don't like it either like most of western put the city recently limited the number of cruise ships to one thousand five hundred landings peja but the boom since the unesco title has also brought other consequences it's lit investments and new construction projects are shooting up everywhere. real estate prices have exploded and the gentrification of the old town is progressing. to give you more 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 like this or. the 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 which during peak season is lined with cruise ships i meet with peter i'm lost he has the organization friends of reagan's bergs old town 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 bavarian monument office and was a minimalist value previously worked as a tourist guide and reagan seeburg 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 here and now we have more than six thousand. guided tours recorded makes me happy every time i walk through the city and see

people from all over the world enjoying drakensberg fest indeed if you also understand more critical voices those who say it's too much for regensburg it can show 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 and 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 calm and i don't have to walk right through the crowd when it's busy i can also choose a side street and so i can go survey and tell me a bit about the organization you lead and your work there the kind of question you know i strive for in this iran's 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. kind of model it's committed to raising the alarm whenever the old town is threatened with any danger you know and if opt out of 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 to the window and longing for an item into the we simply held a protest there and prevented it from happening. or. just all for you know them tell you weren't born in regensburg but you've lived here for a long time what makes regensburg so unique. this is a 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 being so for i always have we it was like when i stepped off the train in rome the first time and felt i'd been there before you marshall or i'm just now i'm half and half roman so to speak and you start this city is very much worth living in because it's preserved its 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 so many folks here

for us who know him say that and you're working hard to keep it that way and then 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 staying a week and going where the wind takes you stop so fu's discover the city on foot onto his own 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 take a boat just let it happen for you thanks for the talk of. the. secrets

behind the. find out you know your city experience and explore. cultural heritage sites. world heritage three sixty if you. if you're ever in regensburg and. looking for a really great place to eat this is the right spot or fake in the very heart of the city is a reagan's burg institution the former brewery was taken over by students in one thousand nine hundred seventy seven and turned into a french style beast. and .

what i loved about reagan's birth is the fact that there is an interesting story waiting around every corner from the romans to the middle ages of to the efforts of solving early european conflicts and the right stock plus the regional specialties are delicious no wonder really are in the very after all.

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