The tour starts with a visit to the Neues Museum – State Museum of Art and Design. Painting, sculpture, photography, video art and various installations provide insights into modern art since the 1960s. After a short coffee break, walk past the 27 concrete pillars of the Way of Human Rights to the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, the largest museum of cultural history in the German-speaking world. The museum houses important art and cultural treasures from prehistory and early history to the present day, including masterpieces by Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach and Veit Stoß, as well as the Behaim globe and the precious cover of the Codex Aureus.
Along the Kornmarkt and the Dr.-Kurt-Schumacher-Straße you reach the Marriage Merry-Go-Round after a few minutes. Surrounding the dancing Meistersinger of Nuremberg, Hans Sachs, the figural fountain displays married life in six scenes – from the first stages of infatuation through to death. Sachs’s poem “Bitter-Sweet Married Life“ served as a model.
Along the city wall and over the Chained Suspension Bridge, the oldest surviving iron chained suspension bridge in continental Europe, the route leads directly to the lively castle district. You can stroll, completely relaxed, past historical buildings, half-timbered houses and small cafés, browsing to your heart’s content, shopping and finding all sorts of specialties at the Nuremberg master traders (nuernberger-meisterhaendler.de).