Bamberg lies in the beautiful Franconia region of Southern Germany. Though it just has about 70.000 inhabitants, the city of Bamberg is world famous for its Philharmonic Orchestra and its picturesque architecture. Furthermore, Bamberg is the city with most breweries per capita in Germany and you can taste some special kinds (such as “smoke beer”) you surely do not get in any other places.
Lots of famous German intellectuals also spent parts of their lives in Bamberg such as the Romantic poet E.T.A. Hoffmann and – of course! – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. It might be more than accidental that “The Phenomenology of Spirit” got first published in the lovely city the Bamberg Summer School on “Metaphysics or Modernity?” is going to take place in – and where you still today can follow the footprints Hegel left about 200 years ago.

If you want to read more about Bamberg and its UNESCO world heritage city center, please check out the English Wikipedia page.

How to get there

You find the closest airport in Nuremberg (Nürnberg) – which is only a one hour train ride away from Bamberg Central Station.
From Germany’s most important airport in Frankfurt, the train ride to Bamberg takes about three hours, and alternatively, you could also travel via Munich (München) which is about three hours as well.

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