Bayreuth city 2008
Bayreuth is a small city in the middle of Germany. The city is known all over the world for the annual Richard Wagner Festival at the Festspielhaus.
The city tries to de-emphasize its relation to the Festival to have an identity based on other qualities (the University for instance), but to most foreigners Bayreuth would not have very exciting had it not been for Villa Wahnfried and the Festspielhaus. Apart from these, the most interesting places to visit are Margrave's Opera House (one of the finest Baroque theatres in Europe) and the park of Eremitage and Old Castle.
Maximilianstrasse is where "everything" happens, and "everything" is not much.
Richard Wagner and the Bayreuth Festival is visible everywhere in the city, although they are trying to emphasize that Bayreuth is more than a festival city.
The congress hotel Arvena Kongress has its own veteran bus that is shuttling between the hotel and the Festival House 45 minutes before performance.
See also
- Bayreuth Festival
- Villa Wahnfried
- How to get tickets for the Bayreuth Festival
- Singers who started in the Bayreuth chorus
- Visit Bamberg when you are attending the Bayreuth Festival