Romans, Dukes and Devils Self Guided Tour of Regensburg

Touch limestone blocks a Roman legion hauled here without mortar — and that still hold after two thousand years.

Descend through five layers of civilization stacked beneath a single church floor.

Trace how one scandalous royal marriage handed an entire duchy to a family that ruled for two hundred years.

Stand before a cathedral the merchants paid for but a bishop's scandal nearly overshadowed.

Stand before a cathedral the merchants paid for but a bishop's scandal nearly overshadowed.

Walk above the buried foundations of a synagogue that thrived for six centuries before a city turned on its protectors.

Size up a tower no one ever lived in — built purely to outshine a rival family across the street.

Decode a sandstone portal where saints, beasts, and a headless Mary guard the doorway to salvation.

Picture an emperor sleeping in a merchant's guest room because no palace in the city could match it.

Find the medieval ruler still mounted on the wall — once the only measuring stick an entire city trusted.

Meet the Regensburg-born son of an emperor who was taken from his mother at three and returned as a legend.

Look past the giant on the facade and ask who the Goliards really were — and why the building carries their name instead.

r twenty-nine thousand florins he was owed.

Cross the only Danube crossing for hundreds of kilometres and spot the engineering trick that kept it standing for nine centuries

Turn around at the far bank for a skyline view that explains why Regensburg never needed to rebuild.