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Germany City Travel Guide: Bayreuth

Bayreuth

Bayreuth Opera

• Hosts some of the world's great classical music events
• Famed for its baroque and rococo architecture
• Richard Wagner settled here - annual Richard Wagner Festival July/August
• Near to Franconia's "Little Switzerland"
• Villa Wahnfried - Wagner's home
• Population 74,000
• Peaceful provincial city, capital of Upper Franconia
• Franz-Liszt-Museum, one of many interesting museums
• Friedrichstrasse - lined with baroque palaces

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The city is planning public big screen airings of World Cup matches as well as information and help for fans who visit during the event.

Bayreuth is the biggest city in Upper Franconia. It is a center of culture with year-round attractions, over twenty museums and a modern university, and is the hi-tech city of its region. Bayreuth is also the gateway to the Fichtel mountains, a good place for winter sports, and ‘Franconian Switzerland,’ a romantic hilly area visited by kayakers and hikers.

Bayreuth Altesschloss

Bayreuth is famous for its Margravial Opera House, “the most beautiful baroque theatre in Europe”. The Richard Wagner Festival is held annually here, though Mark Twain, on one of his trips to Europe, famously said, "Richard Wagner's music is better than it sounds." The opera has house has been selected by the German government to be nominated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Many other festivals are held in this Bavarian town, international center of culture that it is. They feature art, music and drama.

There are also palaces and classical water fountains besides the acoustically-famous Richard-Wagner-Festspielhaus.

Other attractions: the championship golf course; the Lohengrin thermal spa; the gardens of the Hermitage; Carnival (February) ; wheatbeer festival; the Volkfest (People’s Beer Festival); the Midsummer Nights Festival; Das Bayreuther Filmfest, a short-film festival for amateurs and professionals alike.

Bayreuth Tourist Office

Friedrichstrasse

Luitpoldplatz 9, D- 95444 Bayreuth,
Phone: 0049 921 88588
Fax: 0049 921 88555
Hours:
Mon-Fri 9am-6pm; Sat 9.30am-1pm
(longer during the Wagner Festival)

Bayreuth Ticket Service
Luitpoldplatz 9, D-95444 Bayreuth,
Phone: 00 49 921 69 001, Fax: 00 49 921 88538

Getting to Bayreuth

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Air

Nearest international airport: Nuremberg.

Train

The German Railways (Deutsche Bahn) runs trains from Nuremberg (Nürnberg) every hour. From Munich and Regensburg change at Nuremberg.

Bus/Road

Motorways Autobahn A9 or Autobahn A70.

Bus

The Bayreuth Card covers travel on the local buses plus entrance to local museums.

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