Bamberg – since 1993 world heritage site of the Unesco world culture legacy - is a historical and at the same time vital and young at heart town. Tradition and progress are combined in harmony. Bamberg is not only an historic, architectural and urban universal artwork, but with 70.000 inhabitants it is also a vital center of its region. Bamberg is a town of art and culture, sports and with its various schools and the university a center of education. Bamberg, being a bishop-, justice-, congress- and conference town, a gardening town and Franconian center of beer brewery, offers a high quality of life and is, with about 50.000 jobs and a large commuter belt area, an important industrial center in Bavaria.

Less than 100 kilometers away you can visit other historical cities worth seeing like Würzburg, Nürnberg and Bayreuth. They offer multiple historic sites and shopping facilities. Bamberg is also embedded in nature parks like “little Switzerland”, Haßberge Hills and Steigerwald.