Ron, Wolfgang Maicher, Katrin Meissner and I arrived in Würzburg about 2:15pm. We did our own walking tour of this beautiful city.

Würzburg is a city in Germany's Bavaria region. It's known for lavish baroque and rococo architecture, particularly the 18th-century Residenz palace, with ornate rooms, a huge fresco by Venetian artist Tiepolo and an elaborate staircase. We viewed The Residence from outside and walked the lavish gardens.

Home to numerous wine bars, cellars and wineries, Würzburg is the center of the Franconian wine country, with its distinctive bocksbeutel (bottles with flattened round shapes).

We walked Bahnhof Straße then to Stifthaug Church, built 1691, the first Baroque church in Frankonia, with a large painting by Tintoretto. Off to Bürgerspital mit Glockenspiel, founded 1319, the chapel was completed in 1371. The bocksbeutel wine bottles were invented here to distinguish them from the wine that was watered down. We saw and heard the glockenspiel chime at 3pm.

Next to the Princes Residence where we walked around the buildings and in the extensive Hofgarten. It was built by Balthasar Neuman.

Then to the St Kilian's Cathedral (Dom). In the city mall we stopped for snacks. I ate a pretzel from the Kilian Bakery. Alte Main Brücke (Old Main Bridge) over the River Main. It is traditional to drink wine on this bridge.

We walked 35 minutes (including 159 steps) to the Marienberg Fortress. It is well protected with three walls surrounding the ancient city. served as a home of the local prince-bishops for nearly five centuries. It has been a fort since ancient times. Most of the current structures originally were built in Renaissance and Baroque styles between the 16th and 18th centuries. After Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden conquered the area in 1631 during the Thirty Years' War, the castle was reconstructed as a Baroque residence. After it ceased to serve as residence of the Bishops of Würzburg, the fortress saw repeated action in the wars of the late 18th and 19th centuries.

We walked the winding path through the vineyards back down to the bridge. We ate dinner at the Goldene Ganz in the Fränkischen Beer Garden by the River Main loch and drank their lager from their brewery. We then walked back to the bridge and drank the traditional wine on the bridge. Ron drank the white burgundy, Katrin the white Bacchus, Wolfgang and I the white Silvana.

Back to Feucht on the train. Arrived at 10:45pm. Time for a wine.