Land: Bavaria
Situation and characteristics
The old free imperial city of Regensburg, the see of a bishop, lies at the most northerly point in the course of the Danube, which is joined here by the little river Regen and is navigable between Regensburg and the Black Sea.
Regensburg has the same
significance for the art and culture of the early and high Middle Ages as have Nürnberg and Augsburg for later centuries.
The medieval townscape is made up of numerous churches, the tower houses of great noble families and patrician houses of the 13th and 14th centuries such as are found nowhere else north of the Alps.
From Regensburg there are excursion ships to Walhalla, Straubing and Passau; excursions into the Altmühl valley are also planned.