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   Nuremberg Castle

   A group of medieval fortified buildings on a sandstone ridge over the old city, where every Holy Roman Emperor between 1050 and 1571 held court at least once. The double chapel of about 1200, with the emperor's gallery looking down on the lower hall, is the finest part.

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   Germanisches Nationalmuseum

   The largest museum of German cultural history, founded in 1852, holding about 1.3 million objects from prehistory to the present. Dürer, Veit Stoss, the oldest surviving terrestrial globe of 1492 and the Behaim map are all in it.

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   St. Sebaldus

   One of the oldest churches in Nuremberg, begun about 1230 in Romanesque form and given a Gothic hall choir a century later. The bronze shrine of St Sebaldus, cast by Peter Vischer and his sons between 1508 and 1519, stands in that choir; the parish turned Lutheran in 1525.

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   Frauenkirche

   A Gothic church of 1362 on the east side of the main market, built on the site of a synagogue destroyed in the 1349 pogrom that killed most of Nuremberg's Jews. Its 1509 Männleinlaufen clock plays each noon, with seven electors circling the emperor.

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   St. Lawrence

   A Gothic church of the free imperial city, begun about 1250 and completed with its hall choir in 1477. Veit Stoss's carved Annunciation hangs in that choir and Adam Kraft's stone tabernacle rises some 20 metres beside it; the building was gutted in the war and rebuilt.

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   Albrecht Dürer's House

   A half-timbered house of about 1420 where Albrecht Dürer lived from 1509 until his death in 1528, at the northwest corner of the old city near the castle. It is one of very few artists' houses of that date surviving anywhere, and a working replica of his press is in it.

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   City walls of Nuremberg

   A medieval circuit of about five kilometres begun in the twelfth century and finished in the sixteenth, with some eighty towers surviving and a dry moat still open. It is among the most complete city walls in Germany and can be walked almost all the way round.

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   Nuremberg Zoo

   A zoo in the Reichswald southeast of the city, sixty-seven hectares of woodland and sandstone quarry holding about 300 species. Its dolphin lagoon and manatee house are the largest in Germany, and the sandstone terrain is used as enclosure walls.

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   Nuremberg Transport Museum

   A transport museum combining Deutsche Bahn's own museum with the Museum of Communications, one of the oldest technical museums in Europe. Germany's first railway ran from Nuremberg to Fürth in 1835 and a replica of that locomotive, the Adler, is here.

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    Neues Museum Nürnberg

    A museum of modern and contemporary art and design opened in 2000 by Volker Staab, whose curved glass façade a hundred metres long runs along the line of the old city wall. Its design collection covers the twentieth century, art from 1945 onwards.

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   Grand Synagogue of Nuremberg

   A Moorish-style Reform synagogue of 1874 on the Hans-Sachs-Platz, demolished by the Nazis in August 1938 — three months before Kristallnacht — on the orders of the local Gauleiter. A memorial stone marks the site.

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   Documentation Center Nazi Party Rally Grounds

   A documentation centre inside the unfinished Congress Hall of the eleven-square-kilometre Nazi party rally grounds, which was modelled on the Colosseum and never roofed. Günther Domenig drove a glass and steel shaft diagonally through the fabric in 2001, deliberately violating the architecture.

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   Fernmeldeturm Nürnberg

   A 292-metre telecommunications tower of 1977, the tallest structure in Bavaria. Its observation deck and revolving restaurant closed in 1992 and have never reopened.

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   Katharinenkirche, Nuremberg

   A Dominican nuns' church founded in 1295, gutted in the bombing of 1945 and left standing as a roofless shell. The mastersingers of Nuremberg once held their singing schools inside it, and its walls now serve as an open-air stage through the summer.

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   Historischer Kunstbunker

   A tunnel complex cut into the sandstone under the castle, used from 1940 to shelter the city's art — Dürer's prints, the Veit Stoss carvings, the Sebaldus shrine and the imperial regalia. Nuremberg's old town was ninety per cent destroyed above it; the art survived.

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   Nuremberg Toy Museum

   A municipal toy museum founded in 1971 in a house of 1517, in the city that has been Europe's toy-making centre since the Middle Ages and still hosts the world's largest toy fair. Wooden dolls, tin trains and dolls' houses run through four floors chronologically.

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   Wenzelschloss

   A castle at Lauf an der Pegnitz, built for Charles IV between 1356 and 1360 to guard the road from Bohemia to Nuremberg. One room carries 114 carved coats of arms of the Bohemian nobility — the only such heraldic hall of its date north of the Alps.

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   St. Egidien

   The only baroque church in Nuremberg, built after the fire of 1696 destroyed the twelfth-century Benedictine abbey church on the site. Three medieval side chapels survived and are attached to it, so Gothic and baroque sit side by side.

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   St. Elizabeth

   A neoclassical domed church on the Jakobsplatz, begun in 1785 to Franz Ignaz Michael Neumann's design for the Teutonic Order and finished only in 1903 by Ferdinand Lipper. It stands beside the older Jakobskirche and is listed as a Bavarian heritage monument.

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    Business-Tower (Nuremberg)

    A 135-metre office tower of 1999 in the south of the city, the tallest building in Nuremberg, an obliquely cut glass cylinder designed for an insurance company. Its shape has been argued about locally ever since.

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