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VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
Road map D5. * 75,000.
n Luitpoldplatz 9 (0921-885 88).
_ Musica Bayreuth (May),
Fränkische Festwoche (May),
Richard-Wagner-Festspiele (Jul–
Aug), Bayreuther Barock (Sep).
Transport
k Nuremberg, 86 km (53 miles).
£
Franconian Village School
Museum. Based on the original
school furnishings and various
old photographs, the exhibition
illustrates the teaching methods
Festspielhaus, specially designed venue for the annual Wagner Festival that were used in this region
more than a hundred years ago.
F Festspielhaus town hosts a big beer festival Some 25 km (16 miles) from
Festspielhügel. Tel (0921) 787 80. each year, in July and August. Its Bayreuth, in Sanspareil Park near
& 8 Sep–Oct: 10am, 11am, 2pm, town hall has a beautiful Rococo Hollfeld, is the Felsen theater –
3pm daily; Nov: 2pm Sat; Dec–Apr façade dating from 1752. From an unusual 80-seat theatre set
10am, 2pm daily. ∑ bayreuther- here you can walk to the castle in a natural grotto.
festspiele.de hill to visit the vast Plassenburg
Each July and August, Wagner Fortress, which has belonged to
festivals are held in this theatre, the Hohenzollern family since
built between 1872–75 to a 1340. Until 1604, this was the seat
design by Gottfried Semper. The of the von Brandenburg-
world prem iere of The Ring of Kulmbach margraves. Built in
the Nibelung played here in 1876. 1560–70, the gem in its crown is
the Renaissance courtyard with
Environs arcades (Schöner Hof). The castle
Approximately 20 km (12 miles) houses a huge collection of tin
to the northwest of Bayreuth is fig urines, with some 30,000 items.
the town of Kulmbach. Famous In Ködnitz, to the southeast of Felsentheater, in a natural grotto in
for its countless breweries, the Kulmbach, is the Upper Sanspareil Park near Bayreuth

Hauptbahnhof
SCHULSTRSASSE
300 m (330 yards)
MAINSTRASSE
Roter Main Festspielhaus Bayreuth City Centre
LUITPOLDPLATZ ALEXAN- ALBRECHT- Opernhaus
1 Markgräfliches
-DÜRER-STR. Eremitage
KULMBACH KANALSTRASSE DERSTRASSE WÖLFEL- -STRASSE 2 Neues Schloß
STRASSE
Spitalkirche MAXIMILIANSTR. Altes TELEMANN- 3 Richard Wagner Museum
Schloss 4 Franz-Liszt-Museum
(MARKT)
Altes Rathaus Schloss- Markgräfliches
Opernhaus
kirche
Alte Lateinschule HOH ENZ OLL ERNRING
& Historisches RICHARD-WAGNER-STR.
Museum
Stadtkirche KANZLEISTRASSE
LUDWIGSTRASSE Freimaurer WIELAND-WAGNER-STR.
Heilig- Neues Villa
Dreifaltigkeit Schloss Wahnfried
Deutsches
HOHENZOLLERNRING
Italienisches
Schlösschen & Museum
WILHEL- Archäologisches Franz-Liszt-
MINENSTR.
Museum
Museum
C O S I M A - W A G N E R - S T R A S S E
Stadthalle
Hofgarten
FRIEDRICHSTRASSE
JEAN-PAUL-STRASSE
W I T T E L S B A C H E R R I N G
0 metres 200
0 yards 200
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