Würzburg – Germany Trip Blog Post #8

As I already mentioned on Wednesday’s post, Sunday, May 6, we left Ulm, Germany in the morning and first stopped at the town of Rothenburg. After the bus ride there, several hours wandering the beautiful streets plus eating lunch, and then another bus ride to the city of Würzburg, I was pretty much shot.

It was 3:00 in the afternoon, but we still had the walking tour of Würzburg ahead of us. I powered through, took way too many pictures, and remembered very little of what our tour guide told us.

But with a palace like this, what else can a person do?

The Würzburg Residence is a baroque palace, commissioned by Prince-Bishop Johann Philipp Franz von Schönborn in 1720. He died before the outside was finished in 1744.

Much of the elaborate building was destroyed during World War II, but it was rebuilt from 1945 to 1987. To finance that as well as upkeep on a structure this large, our tour guide told us that many of the spaces have been renovated into apartments for rent. Can you imagine living there?

The formal gardens are extensive and beautiful.

The only place we went inside was into the Chapel. It was positively breathtaking.

Then we walked down the several blocks which made up Old Town.

And lastly crossed the Old Main Bridge before meeting up with our bus to take us to the hotel where we stayed for our last three nights of the trip.