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Nuremberg is only 60 kilometres away from my hometown, so while I was there often, I never took pictures. (The curse of being blase about one's neighbourhood.) However, yesterday I was armed with my camera, and it was a very beautiful autumn day.

That's Nuremberg as seen from the castle. The castle comes later. Have a look at the city walls first:

And also the bridges

St. Lorenz

The "beautiful well" -it really is called that - which includes a golden ring you have to turn three times in order to be granted a wish.

These kind of timber houses were far more common pre WW II., but 95% of Nuremberg was destroyed through the bombs. The Nurembergers themselves, in as much as you can use the word, lucked out because centuries and centuries of tunnels created to store beer barrels meant they already had a bomb shelter/bunker system in place, and thus far fewer people died than in Dresden or in Hamburg, where the shelters had to be newly built. Anyway:

Through a minor miracle, one of the few houses that survived the war was Albrecht Dürer's. And thus we have the only citizen's house from the Renaissance still existing in Nuremberg without alterations: