Würzburg – One day in autumn

This fall I’m travelling throurgh Germany to discover the country and the culture and to make my project around midwifery. I was in Würzburg last week-end. It’s a beautiful city of Bavaria, located on the Main river, it is the capital of the Regierungsbezirk. They are having a local dialect called Franconian (Fränkisch). Würzburg is at the same distance of of Frankfurt am Main and of Nuremberg.

Würzburg has several internationally recognized institutions in science and research. Founded in 1402 the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg or  University of Würzburg is one of the oldest university of Germany. Nowadays, there is more than 22.000 students. Many of them enrolled in many academic disciplines as astronomy, biology, Catholic theology, chemistry, computer science, culture, economics, education and social sciences, geography, history, languages and linguistics, law, literature, mathematics, medicine (human medicine, dentistry and biomedicine),pharmacy, philosophy, physics, political science, psychology and sociology. University of Applied Science or  University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt.

Must Sees

If you are like me just there for a short time this is the list of the must sees. To be honest, I just had a few hours there, so I was not able to do them all (as you can see it in my pictures). But here’s a short list of what you must see.

Festung Marienberg (Fortress Marienberg)