this is d w music and find more on our website at www dot com. ah, ah ah. i'm standing above the danny. 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 regensburg 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 a certain, it's going to be a journey through 2000 years of history. ah. will also show you nearby belton book abbey. i will find out what the growing popularity of cruise ship tourism means for regensburg and we'll catch up with our globe trotter 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, who 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. ah, 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 danya was a significant trade and traffic route. and here on its banks and the old town hall, the perpetual diet or rice talk 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 to day. that

was that the mitchell diet was convened in 1663. just a few years after the 30 years was ahmed. that my representatives from all countries from all cities gathered here either 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. arden went to bed or at least not for a 143 years until 18 o. 6. yes, demure art and wonder takes the whole note that i owned. he had sick. yon. v is dead. why was it set up in regensburg fillings, book bars on in the several big gatherings had already taken place in pagan sparky la gal. the city is located on the danube and that door now. so the emperor was able to travel to vienna along the river in the roses money. that infrastructure was unique and offered short travel times, messages could reach the chancery in vienna within 3 days, and vice versa. novelist neither i nor will the next to the infrastructure. there was a 2nd key factor,

namely that regensburg 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. lesson number die don't have to wasn't the right tag. mean for regensburg doesn't get on a i imagine so many powerful people coming here meant money was being spent and had probably brought the city some other perks. total law tie for east i told her natalie. as of course, le pagans book was a prosperous city and an international meeting place is meet at at ice packs. almost every attic was rented out to diet envoys or to their entourages before the city was booming, performed a lot of diplomats held negotiations with other countries here because it was a short distance to travel up nolasco handled as back then the city had international flat to monthly and is that side? douglas gaston calls 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 belton book convent stance. it's home to one of germany's oldest breweries and up to this day, well worth a visit. the most beautiful root of 8 am book abbey takes her across the river through the daniel gorge between limestone, wools up to 70. meet his hein for the full experience hub on excellent, the traditional boat of the gun. you've fishermen put it all is good. and

goodwin, once upon a time, a rowing was the only option that i was, but no one does that any more than i submitted it. now we have a motor flight, but we often turn it off to give people the full experiences, get rid of rooms. you can hear the silence. it's very specials because one that is well, 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, the man for them. hiking is not recreation, it's work. the couple runs the small restaurant eyes. he'd like lu 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 with him and found out by chance that the historic hermitage was for sale and turned it into a heritage site. is a wound of june of his enclosure. mar. this like 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. your thoughts? oh, christmas bama. the 1st guests arrived early in the morning and are given a tour of a cave right next to the church. as i hear the hulu goat or from the 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 and mr. we reach our destination

there to him, book abbey, an impressive building right on the done, you. my settled here and around the years, 617. that makes it the oldest monastery in bavaria. over the years, the benedictine monks kept on building their abbey. the 18th century church owes explained it to the us. some brothers who designed many barack 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 where to look abby, every year where you from either are honest man is magdalana. we're from south korea from who's on the very much these close. not says this via the years.

back in the slightly rainy regensburg. i have an appointment with my t. s. my tech at the 9 pop let's 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 night pop. let's see from the connect as, as you've probably noticed, we're underground now and on to what's exciting here is that you can see recognizable old remains. so i did with the wall with the arc brush. that's classical middle ages, about 700 to 800 years old. even pissed off to the hood. if engine 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 specialty, but they're from roman ties, 2000 years ago, like 1000 yahoo!

revolution isn't when, if we go through this arc, we come to a 2nd seller of your common as it gets here in a slight kayla. and that was interesting here is that all the sellers in the documentation center. he'll come from the former jewish order in her ginsberg since kayla this e. m. ali, your addition filipinos in earnings book on turbo for through his ins and to show what we're seeing here are traces of the jewish families, innovations board. the home phone from they lived in the city for 500 years. him went on and the toward the end of the middle ages is when regensburg was impoverished, and needed a scapegoat exclusion and discrimination of jews and began to increase still exists, dusty, i'll skin somebody discontinue, who swims on to me off, and it all culminated in 1519 if, when the approximately 500 people living here were driven out in full dimension simply expel from the city else give using via when potash bertha huffman,

they demolished the abandoned buildings just a few days later on. probably so that no one would ask, what had been there before onyx delish 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 today, listen, there's nothing to see of those demolished houses in, but the sellers are preserved underground in the shower. the excavations at 9 far plants took 3 years during which time archaeologists 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 with. awe. time to hop on over to the other side of the pond to meet our

globe trotter steve heinous. he's been visiting columbia, caribbean coast off. we go to go back in to start things off here in katerina. we take part in a free to work to get an overview of the old town and all the things he needs to see here, new city center. carter fina 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 why whole city wall, which is especially cool any afternoon when you have the best light to take some often photographs and a salt away can see the contrast of the old city and then you go to walk

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 kathrina to it for tomorrow. this is a boy can or filled with hot months and we're basically here to take a bath in it. as we're panel is 23 meters high and has a depth of 2300 meters. i mean, not that much, but who can on general with when i walk a sort of neighborhood where we're saying, go get a minute 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. and then we take the bus and then we take a motor taxi, and then we'll be and think on then we arrived sent her an offer and i with the sad stuff for our timing that he lives. 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 the la so many is a spot 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. and what have you done in

columbia? right next to the historic stone bridge, you'll find the worst cuckoo, 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 have been told that your restaurant isn't to be missed to what's so special about it must be from focus on this as ones that are shown here. i was so suggest which remake plaza saw a cartilage which we also make ourselves with

the next hour. cout 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 and 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 reagan's book becomes a unesco world heritage site. fantastic. i've hope for this for a long time. after for them they will you flooring 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 to me with. no, but we wanted to be a world heritage decide what 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 i met was a big go back then. what do i get to look at 1st? it was nice to see so many people come in, but now it's turned a little don't 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 records 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 therein. by the evening you bought

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. one is it's hit probably can't get much more than that. we have declined, but do we have to reach that maximum point considering what it costs, residents go for that one. i had people living over there, don't like it either. it's like to go to yoga homeless. the person with 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 lead investors and new construction projects are shooting up everywhere. real estate

prices have exploded and the gentrification of the old town is progressing. given by the plotted. now they also want more guided tours and hotel even while residents hardly live there anymore. and i do the show coming up. there are a few students who like to party one of them, but you can imagine a family or an old couple there any more on that they're being forced out. unfortunately, some, even for the things is lathers or 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 moss. bah, he had the organisation friends of wriggens burges, 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 qu 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 by mister almost. well, you previously worked as a tourist guide and regensburg, what's your take on this tourism? boom of people who it is. i think it's very positive because i experienced the humble beginnings when they were $600.00 guided tours per year. who yeah, now we have more than 6000 guided tours because 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 you say it's too much for regensburg. it can, i know these voices, but i dont quite understand them because as in many cities in 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 with 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 incarcerated. his in death will tell me a bit about the organisation you lead and your work there. the con camila flushed it. yes, the artist of fondest friends of the old town is a group that was founded in 1966. emmett has no political mandate and no direct power when he does his mon dot can mocked also, it's committed to raising the alarm whenever the old town is threatened with any danger. dr. young, i think a fall told who the concrete example was in the early 19 seventy's when there were plans to build a major road along the danube from one end of the old town to the other hotel. say that there were no ent 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, off for hinden them. can you weren't born in regensburg let you've lived here for a long time. what makes regensburg so unique at the physical to for that's a good question. as you're stocky, i've a very strong emotional bond to the city,

and i feel at home here from day to how to food for i always have woocommerce. it was like when i stepped off the train in rome the 1st time and felt i'd been there before, you marshal way or just now i'm half reagan blue and half roman, so to speak with his english data. it seems this city is very much worth living in because it's preserved, it's historical structure, both in stone and in spirit. i just had so gotcha. ok. debated or from heights the whole world was in regensburg during the perpetual diet may become surveyed in reagan's book to coast. this mixture of provincial and cosmopolitan is really something beautiful. i do. so any physicians 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 for 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 ones that have been financial and he and his dad. it would us under soccer. i would put a differently hip ski. i wouldn't give any dempsey instead, i'd recommend just coming here staying

a week and going where the wind takes you stop. so who's discovered the city on foot to visible? it's not like there's any other way to get around town. and just rift along and like the city work, it's magic off and then follow your interests. you knocked him. are you looking for gothic architecture in the cathedral? he or are you after something romantic on issues 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 gonna. ah, ah, what secrets lie behind these walls find out in an immersive experience and explored fascinating world cultural heritage sites with d w world heritage 360. get the up now if you're ever in regensburg and looking for a really great place to eat. this is the right spot. or fe in the very heart of the

city is a regensburg institution. the former brewery was taken over by students in 1977 and turned into a french style beast show. ah ah, what i loved about regensburg is the fact that there is an interesting story waiting around every corner from the romans to the middle ages up to the efforts of solving early european conflicts and the rice track. plus the regional specialties are delicious. no wonder really where the very after all ah, ah, ah

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