Visit to the castle of Thurn und taxis in Regensburg Regensburg (tvo). The castle of St. Emmeram von Thurn und taxis in Regensburg is larger than Buckingham Palace in London and the largest inhabited Castle in Europe. During guided tours of the Castle and cloister, Treasury and stables can be visited throughout the year. Timely registration, special tours are possible. A visit of the more than 1,000-year-old, former Benedictine monastery is a tour through many centuries of the middle ages to the present. The Saints Emmeram and Wolfgang, Carolingian Emperor, Bavarian Dukes and bishops of Regensburg are buried here.
To this day receptions in the rooms of the Castle take place except the castle tours, it serves as a venue for business and private events. The Castle Festival attract annually more than 20,000 visitors. Highlights of this year’s Festival from 16 to 25 July 2010 are among others poignant freedom of Verdi’s Nabucco (16/17th July), the Blues Brothers (20 July), as well as Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story”(23-24 July) in the courtyard of the princely Castle. Information: Castle and cloister of St. emmeram’s Abbey, monastery 5, 93047 Regensburg, Tel. 0941/5048-242 (Office), fax 0941/5048-140,,. “Our tip of the month: the escape from the time”: Rolf Szymanski is one of the major figures of the German sculptor scene. Who the strong urge wants to investigate for freedom in his plastic work, this can escape from the time in the exhibition”at the Museum of Lothar Fischer in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, Germany, which will be shown until June 6, 2010..