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i'm standing above the danube over on the shore, you can see the beautiful old town. and this bridge is the stone bridge built at the beginning of the 12th century. it's believed to be the oldest surviving bridge and germany. i'm in reagan's work in bavaria 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, regensburg has a title to defend those 2006. it's old town including this bridge has been a unesco world heritage site. today i want to get to know regensburg what attracts 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 2000 years of history. ah. will

also show you nearby belgium book abbey. i will find out what the growing popularity of cruise ship tourism means for regensburg and we'll catch up with our globetrotter in the city of current athena in columbia. ah who the fact that regensburg as 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 13th century. and the cathedral tells us a lot about that time. as the facade also depicts the crueler side of the middle ages. oh,

the church vilified juice me this sculpture shows them suckling from a pig, a deliberate insult and humiliation as pigs are considered unclean and judaism blue. 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. mm. ah regensburg 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 a 140 years. mm hm.

to find out more about what that was and what it meant for the city. i'm meeting the director of the regensburg museums. douglas gustavo b o. b b banking. ha, ha ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ha. what exactly was the perpetual diet rings? book law in from the 17th to the early 19th century, hagen's book was actually the capital of europe. a bit like brussels today. that was a live mitchell. diet was convened in 1663 just a few years after the 30 years war. some old representatives from old countries from all cities gathered here. they were supposed to discuss taxes and military issues, but the talks then dragged on for so long, but they never came to a final agreement. often when people or at least not for a 143 years until 18 o 6. yes, demure arts, 106. the one that i owned had sick yon. v is dead. why wasn't set up?

and regensburg lang spoke bus one in the several big gatherings had already taken place in bacon's book. look good. the city is located on the danube and the dawn also, the emperor was able to travel to vienna along the river in the house is money. that infrastructure was unique and offered short travel times. messages could reach the chancery in vienna within 3 days, and vice versa. law which neither annoyed as of the next to the infrastructure. there was a 2nd key factor, namely that hagen's book was an imperial city by me. and i thought it was not part of the surrounding dutchy of bavaria, but was directly subordinate to the emperor and more or less belong to him it to her to closets with him. when lesson of the dye don't have to work with the rice tag, mean for regensburg as and yet i know i imagine so many powerful people coming here meant money was being spent and had probably brought the city some other perks to 040 for the start builder in the to live. as of course, la pagans book was

a prosperous city and an international meeting place as me took an ice box, almost every attic was rented out to diet envoys or to their entourages. the city was booming, performed a lot of diplomats held negotiations with other countries here because it was a short distance to travel, not nolasco, handled as back then the city had international fled to lun, flea, and these at se. douglas gaston called my attention to an interesting mural. 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 as dropping the ball or hear the stone and disturbing the diet. admittedly, there is no way for me to know how the envoys 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 and book

convent stance. it's home to one of germany's oldest brewery, and up to this day, well worth a visit. ah, the most beautiful reactivate in burg. abby takes him across the river through the daniel gorge between limestone walls, up to 70, meet his hein, for the full experience, help on excellent the traditional boat of the danube. fishermen! korea is alice goodwin, once upon a time rowing was the only option that i was to, but no one does that any more. now let's look at it now. we have a motor flight, but we often turn it off to give people the full experiences. maybe to bones, you can hear the silence. it's very specials because on that as well. yet when you hear nothing, you can see a lot. ah, for example, you can see the rock formation, the 3 warring brothers. alternatively, you could hike like haiti and hammon demon for them. hiking is not recreation,

it's work. the couple runs the small restaurant id 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 hermit. the unique church has no proper roof, only the cliff which curves overhead. the frescoes with biblical scenes are from the 16th century. oh. hammond demon found out by chance that the historic hermitage was for sale and turned it into a heritage site. oh, is the windows one of his enclosure? mar, visit, beautiful rock church had been closed for years in folk was lying. i wanted to put it back in the spotlight and open it to the public truths. oh, miss bama. the 1st guests arrived early in the

morning and are given a tour of the cave right next to the church. as i hear the hulu goat openly, this cave is called gold oven. as an alchemist once lived here. and so for these pits in the rocks were carved by hand and housed wooden beams, used probably to support a wooden houses. then mr. we reached our destination. there to look abbey. an impressive building right on the done you months. settled here and around the years, 617. that makes it the oldest monastery in bavaria. over the years, the benedictine monks kept on building the abbey. the 18th century church owes its splenda to the us. some brothers had designed many barrack churches in bavaria, but for many guess the reason they came is the beer garden beer has been brewed in

the monastery for more than 1000 years. another reason why more than half a 1000000 people come to vary to book abbey every year. where you from either or on his band is magdalana. we're from south korea chrome who's on the job very much. these blows up, especially this via cheers. back in the slightly rainy regensburg. i have an appointment with mateus fly tuck at the 9 far plots he shows me the outlines of the former jewish synagogue. regensburg is like many, many evil cities. if you dig here, it's likely you'll discover something. in 1995 traces of the 2000 year history of the city were uncovered during construction work on no far plots. it himself.

yeah. mm hm. the connect, as you've probably noticed, we're under ground now in down to what's exciting here is that you can see recognizable old remains. so i did with the wall with the arc version that's glass, the cool middle ages, about 700 to 800 years old. even because october heard if anyone should. now if you take a step forward and looked down over the parapet, oh, you see those stones shiny. they may not look dead special to cool, but there from roman ties. 2000 years ago, i slide 1000 yahoo universities and when, if we go through this arc, we come to a 2nd seller of your common as we gets here in a slight killer. and that was interesting here is that all the sellers in the documentation center. he'll come from the former jewish water in her ginsberg since kayla this e mailing year edition fearless, intrigues put on tom for through his ins and to so what we're seeing here are traces of the jewish families,

innovations board the um fin from they lived in the city for 500 years. hm. went on then the toward the end of the middle ages, when regensburg was impoverished and needed a scapegoat exclusion and discrimination of jews and began to increase stealing the fist, dusty ouse. glenn, somebody discontinue, who soon moved on them? you often get all culminated in 1519 if when the approximately 500 people living here were driven out in full dimension simply expel from the city. i was given to him on potash bertha huffman, they demolished the abandoned buildings just a few days later among the probably so that no one would ask what had been there before organics delete the and on the resulting square, they built a church out which is the neu, fox hears you think about, which is why it's called neu or new housing. it's noise power plots above the surface to day listen, there's nothing to see of those demolished houses in, but the sellers are preserved underground. the excavations at 9 far plants took 3

years during which time archaeologist even found a gold treasure, the documentation center. it 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 to know. mm hm. ah, i'm to hop on over to the other side of the pond to meet our globetrotters steve heinous. he's been visiting columbia caribbean coast off. we go to got back in. ah, just thought things off here in contact keena. we take part in a free tour to get an overview of the old town and all the things he needs to see here in the city center. katarina was founded in 1533 by a spanish commander, and became the main port for tre, between spain and its overseas empire. in 1984 catalina's port fortress and other

monuments, including the walled old town, were designated a unesco world heritage site. another cool thing to do and cut back in as to walk you old city wall, which is it especially cool in the afternoon when you have the best light to take some awesome photographs and a salt away can see the contrast of the old city and the new spot and how to finish off and often walk on the old city wall at the coffee tomorrow, which is probably one of the best spots to watch the sunset. today we drove one hour up the coast from kathy anna to it to do more. this is a volcano tilt was hot months and we're basically here take it off and it will panel is 23 meters high and has a depth of 2300 meters. so i mean, not the much,

but who can on general with when i walk a sort of neighborhood where we're saying it's all gets emmy and it's a really cool area. it's the up and coming neighborhood right next to the old town . mm mm mm breakfast. yeah. uh huh. and then we take the bus and i would take a motor taxi, and then we'll be and think on then we arrived central alpha and now we're taking this model effective the sets

up for a timing cut that he lies. actually, a little fishing village, 3 hours south of katerina to get a taste of the local life. and to be in a spot with way less tourists. and i think on them off totally as a spot for 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 columbia? right next to be a story, stone bridge. you'll find the worst cook, the sausage kitchen, a true regensburg classic. in the 12th 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 19th century, it's where regensburg most famous brat, forest, or char, cold grilled sausages, are made good . i haven't been told that your restaurant isn't to be missed to what's so special about it? asking from focus on this as ones that i showed here, i was so suggest which remake plaza. so a cartilage which we also make ourselves with legs off clout 6 on sour crowd, is the name of this typical dish. simple, but really good. and just right, if you're feeling packet on your tor after being declared unesco world heritage site in 2006 regensburg experience of full blown tourism bill numbers of visitors have stored ever since. and one of the main reasons for that is

the growing popularity of river cruises on the damn you. some of the locals, on the other hand, aren't too enthusiastic about their new found fame. in summer of 2006, the old town of pagans book becomes a unesco world heritage site. fantastic. i hope for this for a long time after 5 in they will you far as celebrations in the city? you know, we did it well, heritage status is a rare distinction. but today i sat through it with almost cherry. we're happy then and we were proud of officers, but things have gotten out of hand. like i was our tips. we would know, but we wanted to be a world heritage decide with the consequences. nobody really thought about the consequences of what we just wanted to get in the tourist brochures. the up is one of the and there was a big go back. man, what do i get to like at 1st it was nice to see. so many people come in, but now it's turned

a little like it just gone to for some reagan's book is the onslaught has become too much. the city continues to attract masses every year the tourism office analysis, new reco it's for overnight stays, day traverse and cruise line is his passengers stole through the old town. if they came, they sometimes don't even remember what said you they were in by the evening. you bought on 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. ah, the by many are sick of the roaring diesel engines and the constant coming and going of the waterfall in hotels didn't believe that it probably can't get much

more than that. i can give you money, but do we have to reach that maximum point? considering what it costs, residents go for the one i have people living over there. don't like it either. like the book, yoga homeless, the person the city recently limited, the number of cruise ships to $1500.00 landings per year. but the boom since the unesco title has also brought other consequences. it's live investors and new construction projects are shooting up everywhere. real estate prices have exploded and the gentrification of the old town is progressing. get him over the filter now they also want more guided tours and hotel off while residents hardly live there anymore. either they're still coming up. there are a few students who like to party one of older, but you can imagine a family or an old couple. there anymore, although they're being forced out unfortunately, on the been for the things you slide the so the number of tourists increased again last year. but now he can spoke, has put forward in new tourism plan,

which tries to consider both visit his needs and the quality of life of those people who lived on the banks of the danube woods during peak season is lined with cruise ships. i meet with peter mos bah, he had the organisation friends of riggins bergs old town. it's one of the oldest citizens initiatives in germany. and as the name implies, it's concerned with preserving the cities 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 see cover in a former royal villa which to day houses, the bavarian monument office and was but miss dunn as well. you previously worked as a tourist guide and regensburg. what's your take on this tourism? boone? feeble. that? i think it's very positive because i experienced the humble beginnings when there were $600.00 guided tours per year. who you are now. we have more than 6000 guided

tours before it makes me happy. every time i walk through the city and see people from all over the world, enjoying reagans borg christina. you also understand more critical voices. those who say it's too much for regensburg. it can. i load 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 in a pickle here. it's just over the stone bridge to the cathedral, to the old town hall. and if we were 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, tiny site, and gossip aiden is indefinite. tell me a bit about the organisation. you lead and your work there. the con camila flushed it. yes, the artist of foreigners friends of the old town is a group that was founded in 1966. emmett has no political mandate and no direct power when he was one thought cunning mocked also. it's committed to raising the alarm whenever the old town is threatened with any danger, dr. young and he could foretold who the concrete example was in the early 19

seventy's when there were plans to build a major road along the danube. and from one end of the old town to the other hill kelsey, under the war now in long for an item in the village, we simply held a protest there hung and prevented it from happening to put his tuten on your continent. austin. uh huh. for him. then can you weren't born in regensburg let you've lived here for a long time. what makes regensburg so unique? this is a good. that's a good question and see a stock. i have a very strong emotional bond to the city and i feel at home here from day to house . if you knew what i always have, we could. it was like when i stepped off the train in rome the 1st time and felt i'd been there before, you marshal. or just now i'm half reagan blue and half roman, so to speak with his english dottie i'm fussy, leaves this city is very much worth living in because it's preserved, it's historical structure, both in stone and in spirit items. so gotcha ok. debated or from heights the whole world was in regensburg during the perpetual diet you may become surveyed in reagan's book to cost this mixture of provincial and cosmopolitan is really

something a beautiful kind to. so any closeness who owns is up and you're working hard to keep it that way. and then i'm, and what would you say to the 1st time visitor here in reagan spar and whether they come by cruise ship or from somewhere else in germany? where would you send them? what's your top recommendation? things focus hinge must flow to monday. kathleen financial and he and his dad is with us under so i would put it differently hip ski. i wouldn't give any tips either. instead, i'd recommend just coming here staying a week and going where the wind takes you stops. will force discover the city on foot to visible. it's not like there's any other way to get around town and just drift along and let the city work its magic off and then follow your interests. ye knocked him. are you looking for gothic architecture in the cathedral? he tore. are you after something romantic honest, 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. kenneth. ah,

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