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| | STRAUBING, Straubing Tourist Information and Travel Guide at InfoHub.com |
 | | Although this only survived until 1425, and although The Hague was the ducal capital, with Straubing the seat of a secondary court run by a relative of the ruling duke, it was nonetheless a true golden age for the town, and most of its finest monuments date from then. |
 | | Nowadays, Straubing is best known for Bavaria's second largest fair, the Gäubodenvolksfest, which began in the early nineteenth century as a farmers' market but is nowadays a smaller-scale version of the Oktoberfest - albeit one that attracts over a million visitors. |
 | | A peculiarity of Straubing is that its largely pedestrianized historic centre is called the Neustadt (new town), this being a reflection of the fact that it is not the location of the original settlement. |
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