Munich: Augsburg The sights of the UNESCO CityTour Augsburg

Augsburg has about 300,000 inhabitants. The third largest city in Bavaria after Munich and Nuremberg. It is characterized by Roman roots and the trading dynasties of the Fuggers and Welser.
Augsburg is a city with more than 2,000 years of history. The year of its foundation is 15 BC, as this year a legion camp was built on the territory of the present-day Oberhausen district by the Roman emperor Augustus. “Augusta Vindelicum” – as the Roman civil settlement between Lech and Wertach was once called – is the oldest city in Bavaria and the second oldest city in Germany after Trier.

In Augsburg, the center of the Romantic Street, the now internationally known holiday road was founded in 1950. The road stretches over 29 villages and 460 km – starting on the Main in Würzburg over the west of Franconia to Bayerisch-Schwaben, through a piece of Upper Bavarian territory to the Ostallgäu to Füssen. It is interesting that Augsburg is the city with the highest number of public holidays in Germany, as there is also a public holiday on 8 August (Augsburger Hohes Friedensfest), which is limited only to the city area.

Augsburg as a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Since July 2019, Augsburg has been awarded the title of UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Augsburgers have earned this award through their historic water management “Augsburger Wassermanagement-System”, which includes 22 monuments – canals, waterworks, hydropower plants and monumental fountains.

The city is the town’s oldest waterworks and water towers in Central Europe. The system showed very early on how to steer, use and protect the important resource water in sewer systems – as early as 1276, the first channels were mentioned by name. What Augsburg did differently from other cities: The city paid attention to water hygiene early on and separated drinking and drifting water. A novelty in the time and a model for other cities.

During our walk through the city we will discover some of the monuments, such as the Zeughaus, the Stadtmezg, the Lechkanal in the Ulrichs- and Lechviertel, the Augustusbrunnen at Rathausplatz, the Herkulesbrunnen on Maximilianstraße and the Merkurbrunnen on Moritzplatz. During this tour, we will take a look at the Large and Small Water Tower, which is located at the Red Gate. These were built at that time in order to be able to lift water into the Upper Town of Augsburg, which lies 12 m above the water-rich Lechtal.

---What to see in Augsburg---
The Town Hall & the Golden Hall
The Fuggerei
The Augsburg Doll’s Box
Augsburg’s Old Town
Rathausplatz
Maximilianstraße
Fronhof
Prince-Bishop’s Residence
Rathausplatz, Moritzplatz, Ulrichsplatz

To guarantee availability book as soon as possible. Early booking is worth consideration especially if you planning the trip during high season like public holidays or weekends.

This excursion you can cancel with no cost up to 24 hours before the start of the trip. If you cancel it after 24 hours or not show up on the excursion you will still be charged the full price of the activity. Being late on pick-up or departure will be considered as not showing up.