Regensburg
Danube German city
Regensburg is a city in southeastern Germany, located at the confluence of the Danube and Regen rivers in Bavaria.
Its well-preserved medieval center, including a stone bridge dating to the twelfth century, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The city served as a seat of the Imperial Diet for centuries and remains an important regional center: We spent a day exploring Regensburg's old town.
Strengthening defenses or nutrients
- guildProfessional mutual-aid society
- ReichstagGerman parliamentary assembly
- cobblestonesRounded paving stones
- lanesParallel traffic divisions
Large flowing watercourse
- riverfrontLand along a river
- embankmentRaised earth structure
- navigationDetermining position and course
- confluenceMeeting point of streams
shipping · ferry · promenade · riverbank · towpath · floodplain · wharf · current
Bavaria's largest city
Clerical title for monks
- spiresTapering architectural towers
- naveChurch's main interior
- bishopDiocesan clergy head
- bishopricBishop's jurisdictional district
treasury · cloister · gargoyles · vaulting · portal · sculpture · liturgy · mass
Cultural arm of UN
- preservationMaintaining something's condition
- conservationPreventing waste or loss
- restorationReturning something to condition
- monumentStructure honoring someone remembered
landmark · archaeology · Roman · antiquity · history · tourism · museum · documentation
fortification
Strengthening defenses or nutrients
- guildProfessional mutual-aid society
- ReichstagGerman parliamentary assembly
- cobblestonesRounded paving stones
river
Large flowing watercourse
- riverfrontLand along a river
- embankmentRaised earth structure
- navigationDetermining position and course
confluence · shipping · ferry · promenade · riverbank · towpath · floodplain · wharf · current · waterfront
Munich
Bavaria's largest city
Dom
Clerical title for monks
bishopric · treasury · cloister · gargoyles · vaulting · portal · sculpture · liturgy · mass · pilgrimage
UNESCO
Cultural arm of UN
- preservationMaintaining something's condition
- conservationPreventing waste or loss
- restorationReturning something to condition
monument · landmark · archaeology · Roman · antiquity · history · tourism · museum · documentation · authenticity