Bamberg Travel Guide

As Bamberg was hardly destroyed in the Second World War and therefore has the most intact center of all German cities, all of its three parts - the ecclesiastical city in the mountains (where the main cathedral is now), the old inner city on an island on the river and the gardening area on the west bank - became UNESCO world heritage in 1993.


But Bamberg is not only famous because of this: Located at the border of the Franconian wine region with the center Würzburg, Bamberg is the Franconian center of beer. As many as 10 breweries are located in the city area and about 80 in the region around Bamberg. They even have their own kind of beer, the Rauchbier.


The colours of Bamberg are black and yellow; the coat of arms shows a boar and a lion.