far that's why we meet the city for a moment and take a trip to the south pole our check in viewer priyanshu now from thailand took some spectacular footage over there and he has sent us the video for that and now enjoy the v mail. heidelberg is the quintessential student town it's home to germany's oldest university it's over six hundred thirty years old. more than thirty thousand students are enrolled here. you know john de janiero and john is one of them he offered to show me around our first stop is the assembly hall it reminds me of a church if you look outside wouldn't you know for a long time it was used for teaching but today it's mostly reserved for concerts lectures the ceremonies and it's a place frequently shown off to tourists and among those considered like me and exactly. the assembly hall is the showpiece of title back universities main building. next vino takes me to the library nearby it houses a priceless treasure the codex mine they said. hello welcome to our historic ground reading room one thing one librarian martin missing shows us the precious book well it's a copy bu