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| | Veste Coburg, Germany. Travel guide & tourist information by Hostelbookers.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | Towering 167 metres above the town and visible from miles around, the Veste Coburg, one of the largest surviving medieval fortresses in Germany, can be reached by bus #8 from the Markt, or by a steep thirty-minute walk. |
 | | The oldest part, the Blauer Turm (Blue Tower), was built around 1230, but most of the present massive complex, which is enclosed by two rings of defensive walls, postdates a fire in 1499 which destroyed much of the earlier structure. |
 | | The three other edifices house one of Germany's most varied and remarkable museums, the Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg (April–Oct Tues–Sun 10am–5pm; Nov–March Tues–Sun 1–4pm; www.kunstsammlungen-coburg.de; DM6/€3), whose exhibits are drawn predominantly, but by no means exclusively, from the ducal collections. |
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