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Thuringia's Capital

Cultural tour to Erfurt:

„In the footsteps of the Great Reformer Martin Luther“

-> Why you should travel to Erfurt

-> Highlights

-> Travel excursions and ideas

-> Arriving

Why you should travel to Erfurt:

- over 1270 years of eventful history
- Krämerbrücke bridge, the longest completely built-up and occupied bridge in Europe
- one of the best preserved medieval town centres of Germany
- half-timbered houses
- sacral buildings, St Mary’s Cathedral, St Severi Church
  follow in the footsteps of personalities such as Luther, Goethe and Schiller
- lively university town

Highlights in Erfurt:

Travel excursions and ideas: 

Luther and the Reformation: Augustinian Monastery and Michaelis Church, Luther House, Luthers House of birth and his Last Residence, Church of St Peter and Paul in Eisleben where Luther was baptised, Houses of Luther and Melanchthon, Cranach Buildings in Luthertown Wittenberg

Music: Erfurt Theatre, concerts by Erfurt Philharmonic Orchestra, Old Opera House, Bach´s House (with demonstration of historic instruments from his era) and Richard-Wagner collection in Eisenach, Bach ancestral home in Wechmar, Bach Church and exhibition in Arnstadt’s Palm Tree House, Dornheim church where Bach married, Ekhof-Theatre in Gotha

Railway culture: Rennsteigbahn, Meiningen steam locomotive works, the Oberweissbach mountain railway, Railway Museum Arnstadt, Ride with the »Wartburg Express « 

Sacred buildings: St Mary's Cathedral, St Severi Church, Augustinian Monastery

Christmas: historical Christmas market on the cathedral's square, medieval Christmas market on the Wenigemarkt

Jewish Erfurt: Old and New Synagogue, Old and New Jewish Cemetery

Castle, parks and gardens: Castle Friedenstein in Gotha, egapark Erfurt, Europa-Rosarium in Sangerhausen - the World´s largest Collection of Roses

Excursions from Erfurt: tour through the Thuringian Forest via Tabarz with Inselsberg to Schmalkalden and Ilmenau, Weimar city of classics incl. Goethe's summer house, the Schillers House und Anna Amalia Library, Follow the Klassikerstraße route - the birthplace of Classicism (z. B. Erfurt – Gotha – Weimar – Erfurt), Panoramic tour to the “Drei Gleichen” castles, incl. castle visit (with views) and Arnstadt, musical town Leipzig

Arriving:

	Leipzig/Halle airport, approx. 87 miles  Erfurt airport (connection to all major cities in Germany, approx.4 miles)
	via the A 4 (Frankfurt/M.-Görlitz), A 71 (Sömmerda- Schweinfurt)
	long-distance connection to major German cities, arrival into Erfurt mainstation (city centre)

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