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Augsburg Private Walking Tour With A Professional Guide

By Global Guide Services
5 out of 5
Free cancellation available
Price is £198 per traveller* *Get a lower price by selecting multiple travellers
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Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 2h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Multiple languages
Overview

Meetingpoint: At Fuggerei

or Meeting Point at hotel possible if central, without extra charge

Duration: 2h

Maximum 25 participants per Guide

You will learn about:
• Augsburg’s golden age in the 16th and 17th century
• Understand why the city is landmark for the Lutheran church and Christianity
• The rise and fall of an Imperial Roman City.
• The architecture of Elias Holl
• Berthold Brecht and his “Three Penny Opera.”
• Martin Luther being interrogated by the Pope about his beliefs.
• Marie-Antoinette and her marriage with Louis the XIV, King of France.
• Fuggerei, the oldest social settlement

Activity location

  • Fuggerei
    • Jakoberstr. 26, At the end of Vorderer Lech
    • 86152, Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Fuggerei
    • 26 Jakoberstraße
    • 86152, Augsburg, Bayern, Germany

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Augsburg Private Walking Tour With A Professional Guide
  • Activity duration is 2 hours2h2h
  • English

Meetingpoint: At Fuggerei

or Meeting Point at hotel possible if central, without extra charge

Duration: 2h

Maximum 25 participants per Guide

You will learn about:
• Augsburg’s golden age in the 16th and 17th century
• Understand why the city is landmark for the Lutheran church and Christianity
• The rise and fall of an Imperial Roman City.
• The architecture of Elias Holl
• Berthold Brecht and his “Three Penny Opera.”
• Martin Luther being interrogated by the Pope about his beliefs.
• Marie-Antoinette and her marriage with Louis the XIV, King of France.
• Fuggerei, the oldest social settlement

Price details
£198.15 x 1 Traveller£198.15
Total
Price is £198.15
Until Fri, 26 Apr

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedPossible customising on tour with your local guide on the spot
  • What's includedWhat's includedPrivate guided Tour
  • What's includedWhat's includedLocal Guide who will be with your group only
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedService charge

Know before you book

  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Public transport options are available nearby
  • Transport options are wheelchair accessible
  • All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • This walk tour suitable for any age
  • For this walk tour no transport needed
  • Activity Level: Easy
  • In accordance with UK consumer law, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.
  • This activity is provided by a professional trader (a party acting within their trade, business or profession).

Activity itinerary

Fuggerei
  • 15m
  • Admission ticket not included
Our adventure starts at Fuggerei, where you can admire the oldest social settlement in the world history which was founded by one of the richest families in the world. It is the home of 150 people today.
St. Peter am Perlach
  • 30m
  • Admission ticket not included
From this point, we will head into the old city and begin by visiting the birthplace of the worldwide acclaimed artist Berthold Brecht, and about his the Three penny opera. We continue our walk until we reach the Butcher’s Guild, built by Elias Holl, the master architect who designed the most important buildings during Augsburg’s golden age, the 17th century. We stop at the St. Peter am Perlach Church to take a look at the painting of Mary untie of knots, a unique depiction of the virgin Mary and a site of pilgrimage for believers around the world.
Zeughaus
  • 30m
  • Admission ticket not included
Get a look at the Town hall, the first building in the world to have 6 floors. Also designed by Elias Holl, it was built to host the Imperial diet. There will be time to learn more about the Weaver’s Guild, important for the trade of textiles, the place that put Augsburg on the map. Here, you can admire the paintings adorning the Weaver’s Guild’s outside walls and get a glimpse of Augsburg’s history. We then make our way to the Zeughaus, the Armoury, which was converted into a cultural building after the Second World War. Another of Elias Holl’s masterpiece.
Damenhof Augsburg
  • 30m
  • Admission ticket not included
Visit the Damenhof, the lady’s courtyard, and the Fuggerhaus, home of the Fugger family and where Martin Luther was interrogated by the Pope’s envoy about his beliefs.
Schaezlerpalais
  • 15m
  • Admission ticket not included
Next stop is the Schaezler Palais, a place which survived the Second World War without a scratch. Its ballroom is the best conserved in Germany and host many exhibitions.

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESFuggerei
    • Jakoberstr. 26, At the end of Vorderer Lech
    • 86152, Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLEFuggerei
    • 26 Jakoberstraße
    • 86152, Augsburg, Bayern, Germany

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