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Bamberg History and Monuments

Bamberg History and Monuments

Bamberg · Germany

14 stops8.5 km1 h 43 min
  • Audio guide
  • 4 languages
  • Quizzes
  • Offline

Walk through Bamberg’s historic center, pausing at churches, fountains, a canal harbor, a library, a monastery, and a castle. You will see how religious, civic, and defensive monuments occupy different parts of the city. The route ends at Burg Altenburg, where the climb adds a strong finish to a walk focused on Bamberg’s built history. Allow for frequent stops to compare the monuments and their different purposes.

The walk

Stops 1–6 of 14. The rest are in the app.

  1. Karmelitenkloster

    Karmelitenkloster

    A medieval women’s foundation turned Carmelite church, barracks, school, and homes.

  2. Obere Pfarre - Zu unserer lieben Frau

    Obere Pfarre - Zu unserer lieben Frau

    A Gothic parish church reshaped by Baroque ambition, wartime damage, and one abandoned tower scheme.

  3. Schloss Geyerswörth

    Schloss Geyerswörth

    A Geyer family city palace turned Renaissance residence, then a Bamberg government building.

  4. 8 more stops on this walk, in the app
  5. Nonnengraben Canal Harbor

    Nonnengraben Canal Harbor

    A quiet Bamberg landing on a canal that once aimed to join the Danube and the Main.

  6. Gabelmann

    Gabelmann

    A working water source became Bamberg’s Neptune, paid for by a bequest hidden in salt.

  7. Sankt Martin

    Sankt Martin

    A Jesuit church that became St Martin, with a Baroque facade, hidden crypt, and a borrowed holy image.

  8. Stop 7

  9. Stop 8

  10. Stop 9

  11. 8 more stops in the app

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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How a walk works

8 more stops in the app

This page shows the first 6 of 14 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.

  1. Pick a walk

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  2. Pocket your phone

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  3. Listen as you arrive

    On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.

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  • A guide who talks

    Narration at every stop, starting on its own as you arrive — phone in your pocket.

  • The route, followed

    A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.

  • In four languages

    English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.

  • Something to answer

    A few questions as you leave a stop, written from the story you just heard.

  • Or build your own

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  • The unglamorous things

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  • No signal needed

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  • Picks up where you left off

    Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.